Vengeance Is Mine

*A Guardian Best Translated Novel Of 2023**A National Book Critics Circle Awards 2023 Finalist**A Words Without Borders Best Translated Book Of 2023*A Powerful Story Of Mothers And Daughters GuardianA Haunting, Mysterious Tour De Force Lucy Scholes, ProspectI Was Hypnotised From The First Word To The Last Tess Gunty, Author Of The Rabbit Hutch[A] Fiercely Intelligent Story: Everyone Is Complex And Full Of Shadows, As Life Is Mariana Enrquez, Author Of The Dangers Of Smoking In Bedwhen Gilles Principaux Walks Into Matre SusaneS Legal Practice Seeking Representation For His Wife, His Presence Triggers Memories From Her Childhood She Had Long Buried. Gilles Wife Is Charged With Drowning Their Three Children, A Case That Will Be Splashed Across The News Media In Bordeaux And Beyond. So Why Has He Entrusted His WifeS Fate To Her Small, Unremarkable Practice?Matre Susane CanT Shake The Feeling That She Has Met Him Before, That Something Happened Between Them One Afternoon When She Was Barely Ten And He Was Fourteen, Something Sinister She Has Never Known How To Remember. But Gilles Seems So At Ease Her In Presence That Matre Susane Begins To Believe That Her Memory Must Be Playing Tricks On Her.Haunted By A Past That Both Escapes And Consumes Her, Matre Susane Fights To Hold On To Her Memory, Her Identity And The Chance SheS Been Given To Avenge Herself.Translated From The French By Jordan Stump.