Chavirer | Virtual Event

Novelist Lola Lafon and author and UCLA professor Laure Murat discuss Lafon’s bestselling and widely acclaimed novel, Chavirer, just published in France (Actes Sud).

If we had to name a secret thread that connect the novels of Lola Lafon, it would be that they invite us to listen to muted young girls, from the heroines of Mercy, Mary, Patty, to Nina Comanecci (The Little Communist Who Never Smiled) to Chloe, at the center of Chavirer, her masterful new novel. Lola Lafon’s characters bear witness to the violence inflicted on women in our societies.