Rounding out my Summer of France is Delphine de Vigan’s
“metafictional thriller,” Based on a True Story. This French bestseller
is the story of “a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic.” There was a film
adaptation in 2017,...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
