Lili Is Crying

Title: Lili Is Crying Author: Hélène Bessette Fiction: 1642182 ISBN: 9780811239660 Publisher: New Directions Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Section: Fiction | Family Life | General Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Lili Is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love--of desire run cold--and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial publication in 1953 for its boundary-pushing style, Lili Is Crying transformed Bessette into a cult author in France. Moving and maddening in turns, the characters are so trapped in their own cruelty and sorrows, but in its spareness it feels true: "Show me a woman who