“One autumn morning, the narrator receives a call from his father: he wants to transform his old childhood bedroom into a workbench. The young man then takes the road to his hometown, where awaits the difficult task of determining what, in the boxes of accumulated memories, deserves to be saved. Through a short autobiographical novel composed of prose poems, Jonathan Bécotte takes us on a nostalgic journey on the road to those fateful moments that build an adult. Between teenage friendships and the first love emotions, the author gently whispers to us that it’s beautiful to keep your child’s light and that it’s even more so to have this ardent crush on the player of the game. soccer team. The dark room then becomes a tender embrace for young adults in search of queer representation and a sanctuary for hearts dented by the pangs of adolescence. A real literary cocoon that makes us travel in the past to see a brighter future.
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