She discusses why the subjects at the heart of The Book of Mother resonated with her and how reading memoirs set in Paris prepared her for the translation.
Leslie Camhi
Leslie Camhi is a New York-based essayist, cultural journalist and translator
Camhi writes for the New York Times, Vogue and other publications. She is a frequent contributor to artists’ monographs and museum catalogues. The Book of Mother is her first book-length translation.
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Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is an exquisitely wrought story about a daughter’s inextinguishable love for her magnetic, mercurial mother
Translated by Leslie Camhi
