In your first novel, a young woman kills a violent man. Why this story?
I have worked a lot on feminism, on sexual violence, on families, and I wanted to write on the transgenerational to talk about the continuum of violence from generation to generation. While I was thinking about this question, my father told me that my great-grandmother had killed her abusive husband with a log. Even today, we have trouble with the self-defense of women victims of violence, so in her time, at the beginning of the last century, she was interned. It’s inspired by my family history, it was about making it universal through fiction.
Why is it necessary to transmit family stories?
This is essential to prevent secrets and the unsaid from transmitting traumas that continue to weigh. You have to talk to the children. I checked it. By taking the risk of talking about what I went through, the rapes I suffered by a friend of…
