French novelist Edouard Louis has one subject – himself – and two stories to tell about it. The first, painfully recounted in his acclaimed debut, The End of Eddy, published in France when he was 21, concerns his escape from the deprived northern village where he grew up targeted for being gay.
The novel's emotional punch lies in the ever-present question of how traitorous this transformation feels, and not only to Louis (or Edouard, as he is in the book).
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