Alice Zeniter delivers a highly stimulating book that invites us to rethink the way we read the stories we are all told.

To claim that half the world is missing from fiction and still needs adequate representation is also to say this same half of the world that's missing needs much more exploring. "And that seems to me the most wonderful of agendas," Alice Zeniter writes in this highly stimulating book, rich with life lived and books read, reflections, and ideas about the way we live and write. As lighthearted as she is serious, Alice Zeniter throws open wide the windows of fiction yet to come.