Our Favorite March Reads

Wondering what we’ve been reading this March? Thomas Schlesser’s Les Yeux de Mona, aka the most buzziest novel of this year so far; La Fille de Lake Placid, an hymn to Lana Del Rey; Diaty Diallo’s breathtaking debut, Deux Secondes d’air qui brulent (Points/Seuil); and Sororité, a collective take on sisterhood led by French novelist Chloé Delaume.
Which one will you pick?

Reading List

Les Yeux de Mona by Thomas Schlesser

This incredibly buzzy debut is something like if an acclaimed art historian had written All the Light We Cannot See. Given that it’s written by a scholar and is in some ways an art history book disguised as a novel, it could easily feel didactic. But instead it feels passionate and engaging and really captures the freshness and wonder of understanding art, the world, growing up, through the eyes of a child. The story of a little girl losing her eyesight and her grandfather who cares for her, this book explores how art can help us interpret the world around it.
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Diaty Diallo is a poet and performer in addition to being a critically acclaimed novelist and her expansive creative vision is apparent in this stunning sophomore novel. It is a story about a group of boys whose lives are bounded and defined by violence, authoritarianism, and racism, but also by friendship, community, solidarity. The act of extreme violence that is the sparking point of the novel feels inevitable from the start. This is a conflagration waiting to alight.

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La Fille de Lake Placid by Marie Charrel

This fictional tribute to Lana Del Rey promises to plunge readers into her artistic universe and it delivers on that. While the singer of “Venice Bitch” and “Brooklyn Baby” may seem quintessentially American, Charrel conjures up a hazy technicolor world that is all Lana’s, weaving her lyrics into the text and dramatizing a pivotal meeting with older and more established singer Joan Baez.
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Sororité by Chloé Delaume, Collectif

An ideal book for anyone looking for an introduction to feminism! Edited by Chloé Delaume, several feminist personalities take up the pen to give us their definition of sisterhood and what it means to them.
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