A Frozen Woman

Annie Ernaux · 1981 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A girl raised by a mother who ran the shop and a father who did the cooking grows up certain that women are not the ones who wait, then marries a fellow student, has two sons, keeps her teaching post and finds the shopping and the ironing have quietly become hers alone. The freeze is tracked year by year, through timetables, meals and small negotiated defeats. The last of Ernaux's books to keep a novel's shape while doing an autobiography's work.

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