Collapse: A Novel

From “one of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation” (The Guardian), an unflinching account of Édouard Louis’s brother’s life and death.

Édouard’s brother spent much of his life dreaming. He lived in a poor, working-class world, where he imagined that he would become one of the finest butchers in France, that he would travel, that he would make his fortune, that he would restore cathedrals, and that his father, who had disappeared, would return an...