Date 10 January 2019
Pages 144
Format cm 15 x 21
Price € 15.00
EAN 9782715248588
Publisher Website www.mercuredefrance.fr

To the Devil with you, Son!

Author Gilles Leroy
Publisher Mercure de France
COLLECTION Bleue
Lorraine kills herself trying to raise her four sons and has nothing but God and her pills to keep her going. But what really gets her the most is Adam, her defiant eldest son...

Eau Claire, a small town in Wisconsin. Lorraine and her husband, Fred, have four children. Lorraine is trying to raise them as best as she can, while she and Fred take series of short-term jobs to make ends meet. But one night, when she's feeling particularly exhausted, Lorraine cracks: after an umpteenth argument with Adam, her oldest fifteen-year-old son, she reaches the end of her patience. In the middle of the winter night, she boots him out of the house, on the pretext that he's a homosexual. She then proceeds to burn all her son's possessions, claiming to be protecting the family from shame.