The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier Tombow over barstools and backyard fences—she

over barstools and backyard fences—she examines our assumptions about class and property and the ways we internalize the demands of capitalism

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The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier Tombow over barstools and backyard fences—she2023 International Booker Prize, Longlist New York Times Editors' Choice "A real time study in crippling self consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence." The New York Times Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor,