Brilliant Imperfection

A Woman's Story is an autobiographical work by French Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux, documenting her mother's life from working-class daughter to small shopkeeper. This is a concise yet powerful work about class, women's fate, and the mother-daughter relationship, and a representative example of Ernaux's 'auto-socio-biography' writing style.

This collaborative work traces abolition feminism through women-of-color, queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist, and grassroots movement histories.

Thus She Is (Ainsi soit-elle) is a foundational text of modern French feminism, selling over a million copies and defining a generation. With passionate prose, Benoîte Groult indicts misogyny in all its forms, from linguistic sexism and the erasure of women's history to the physical brutality of female genital mutilation, calling on women to reclaim the definition of their own existence.