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Trigger warning: This review mentions rape and genocide. To break through taboos can require a certain prowess. This prowess Neige Sinno has demonstrated twice. At age 19, she filed a lawsuit against her stepfather who sexually abused her throughout her adolescence. She filed again when she published Triste Tigre, the book that has emerged as the literary phenomenon of the fall. How did she craft this narrative and effectively approach such a deep-seated taboo? Sinno draws on her personal history, the many reverberations that this trauma had on her, on her family, and on her friends. Simultaneously, she investigates literary…

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J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'importe lequel des orphelins qui y trouvent refuge,

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