SLEEPLESS, by Marie Darrieussecq, translated by Penny Hueston (Text, $40)
Early in the French writer Marie Darrieussecq states: “The world is divided into those who can sleep and those who can’t.” She falls into the latter category, particularly since the birth of a child 20 years ago. The book began as columns for a weekly magazine in 2017, which Darrieussecq kept up for two