BOOKS
The Living Days
by Ananda Devi, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
(Les Fugitives, ISBN 9781999331849)
Poor, old, lonely and living in a dilapidated house on London’s Portobello Road, Mary has little to look forward to until she chances upon Cub, a British-Jamaican boy with whom she strikes up an awkward friendship. Soon mutually dependent, for dark and dubious reasons that neither will readily admit, their lives become entangled in an increasingly surreal and uncomfortable way, with horrifying consequences.
Originally published in French in 2013, is an unflinching and at times brutal look at life in the
