La Bleue Comme Un Frere

LIKE A BROTHERHaving set out on the trail of her family history, a young woman delves into accounts of a young man condemned to death: a 24-year-old who undertook a suicidal hold-up in 1954. Posterity has acknowledged that he rediscovered his faith in prison. The legal system turned him into a monster, the church wanted to make him a saint. Who was he? What was he looking for? This young man's name was Jacques Fesch, he was the narrator's uncle. An uncle she imagines but never knew, and whose legend haunts her. As she immerses herself in the 1950s and tries to understand this enigmatic man, her questions slide towards obsession and uncover long buried sorrows of her own. Like a Brother is the story of a fantasy and a quest. An intimate road movie. It is the story of an invented brother, a cursed brother, the story of an impossible meeting. Stéphanie Polack's acclaimed first novel Route royale, published in 2007, introduced her unusual voice. That same voice, the same energy and the same incisiveness are here in Like a Brother, which affirms her talent. Born in 1977, Stéphanie Polack's first novel Route royale was published in 2007. She also contributed to the collection of short stories 11 femmes (J'ai lu, 2008).