RaveThe Wall Street JournalA piñata’s worth of surprises bursts from this novella of just 128 pages ... The bigger surprise here, at least to me, is Beauvoir’s genius as a fiction writer ... Tender and wicked, Beauvoir uses everything here: nature, families, poverty and wealth, and the material world of things—clothes, décor, pots and pans. Beauvoir pledged her art to the promise that one day Zaza would live on. This last, unpublished novel seems a miracle of raising the dead from icy memory, of conjuring the openness of youth, its all-consuming love and loss. Beauvoir’s glittering words reward us by remembering how we were.
