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“The Lost Children’s Club” by Rebecca Lighieri: beyond the controversies, a brilliant and sensitive novel

Armand and Birke form an almost legendary actor couple. He can choose his roles, break away from the classics, establish himself in daring adaptations of novels, Pale firede Vladimir Nabokov, Marsby Fritz Zorn. His successes are not limited to the theater. He loves women, who repay him.

Birke, who has his secrets, does not stand in the way. Everything would be fine if it weren’t for Miranda, their daughter. Miranda is intelligent, beautiful, even if she doesn’t have “the shine” of his mother. She is “singularly deprived of the joy of living”, she confided to Armand, during an episode of crisis that, like everyone else, he blamed on the depression from which she ended up ” emerge “.

In any case, that’s what Armand says. Rebecca Lighieri in fact composed her novel by giving voice successively to Armand and Miranda. In the story of the father, Armand, with his “somewhat limited optimism”tries to understand her child’s distress, “who, every second (…), suffers from being alive”. But the concepts of psychology are powerless to account for what is happening in Miranda.

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