Blue Self-Portrait

one-time mother-in-law over a tennis match, who delights in her parachutist’s boyfriend’s irreverence and can’t rein in her neuroses even on dates with her buttoned-up “world-class” pianist love interest, has been a hoot, if an unexpectedly educational one.

Sophie Lewis

January 2017

NOÉMI LEFEBVRE was born in 1964 in Caen, and now lives in Lyon, France. She is the author of three novels, all of which have garnered intense critical success: her debut novel L’Autoportrait bleu (2009), L’état des sentiment à l’âge adulte (2012), and L’enfance politique (2015).

SOPHIE LEWIS is a literary editor and translator from French and Portuguese into English. She has translated Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Emmanuelle Pagano, and João Gilberto Noll, among others.

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