{"product_id":"how-to-make-a-woman-9798893380705","title":"How to Make a Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFunny, brutal, and \"profoundly original\" (\u003ci\u003eLibération\u003c\/i\u003e)--an electrifying double narrative about the creative and destructive potential of friendship between women, from one of the most surprising and prolific voices in French literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is--to start--the 1980s, in a small village in the French Basque Country. Rose and Solange are fifteen and have been friends forever; only now Solange is pregnant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel in two irreducible parts, \u003ci\u003eHow to Make a Woman\u003c\/i\u003e narrates, in Marie Darrieussecq's relentless prose, the coming-of-age of these two young women against the backdrop of the final decades of the twentieth century: scenes and subcultures, the AIDS epidemic, the end of history. Rose goes to nearby Bordeaux to study psychology, maintaining an equivocal relationship with her childhood sweetheart; Solange shakes off old attachments to pursue a life on the stage and in pulsing city centers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Bordeaux, Paris, London, and Hollywood, as they pass in and out of each other's lives, each makes use of, and makes, the other in this bold novel--mischievous, exuberant, and radical--about sexuality, self-knowledge, and \"what is done to women in the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marie Darrieussecq\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Transit Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798893380705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarie Darrieussecq\u003c\/b\u003e's first book, \u003ci\u003ePig Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, became an overnight sensation and bestseller, selling more than 300,000 copies and translated into more than thirty languages--since then, she has gone on to publish twenty more, including Being Here, a literary investigation into the life of the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, and the novels \u003ci\u003eMen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOur Life in the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e described her as France's \"best young novelist,\" and she is recognized as one of the leading voices of French contemporary literature. Her novel \u003ci\u003eMen\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Prix Médicis and the Prix des Prix in 2013.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePenny Hueston'\u003c\/b\u003es translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Salasc and Patrick Modiano and eight books by Marie Darrieussecq. She has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier's Translation Prize, and she was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Marie Darrieussecq \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48909942784157,"sku":"9798893380705","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_f5870e17-a1a4-4756-a5e3-fededaf9988a.jpg?v=1789454844","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/how-to-make-a-woman-9798893380705","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}