In a gripping stream-of-consciousness debut, 34-year-old Metz native Hélène Laurain plunges readers deep into the fiery heart of contemporary activism.

Laetitia was born three minutes before her twin sister and thirty-seven before the Chernobyl disaster. Despite excelling in her studies at every level, she spends her days, to her parents' despair, swimming in the spa town of Thermes-les-Bains. Nights find her drinking at La Cave, a club where she listens to Nick Cave and obsesses over SUVs and the ongoing clima­te crisis. Laetitia lives in the region of Lorraine, where France, Germany, and Luxembourg have buried all their nuclear waste. She and her friends pull off a spectacular act of defiance in the name of environment. But it is only a taste of the great conflagration to come. Breathless pacing and riveting, almost spoken-word style.