An efficient and deeply moving autobiographical testimony.

Parenthesis is an intimate story, the exhaustive memoir of a 24-year-old woman, an illustrator, forced to re-learn everything about how to live after surviving a long illness. This story, says author Élodie Durand, "speaks of time, memory, an endless convalescence, and everything about how it feels re-learning how to read, to count, to find your memories — in short, how to live again."