In a 24-hour whirlwind of death and life, Simon and Claire’s lives will be fatefully joined, in Maylis de Kerangal’s extraordinary story
Translated by Jessica Moore
Jessica Moore
Jessica Moore is a poet, translator and author. She is also a singer-songwriter, who plays banjo, piano, guitar, and body-percussion
She is a former Lannan writer-in-residence and winner of a PEN America Translation Award for her translation of Turkana Boy, by Jean-François Beauchemin. Her first collection of poems, Everything, now, was published in 2012, and her debut album, Beautiful in Red, was released in 2013. She lives in Toronto.