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And Their Children After Them

Other Press, 2020. $17.99, 432 pages.

in France in 2018, the year of the protests, Mathieu’s Prix Goncourt–winning novel captures the restless energy of dejected teenage boys growing up in an industrial valley in the Great East region of France over four summers in the 1990s, where the ruins of blast furnaces from the defunct Metalor firm serve

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