A conversation with Francesca Momplaisir Author of My Mother’s House. Q: What inspired you to write My Mother’s House? A: I don’t know that I was so much “inspired” as this was the novel that chose to come when it did. I did know that I wanted to create a place that was more than a setting but a full character. I grew up in South. Lucien and Marie-Ange call their home La Kay—“my mother’s house”—and it becomes a place where their fellow immigrants can find peace, a good meal, and necessary legal help. But as a severely emotionally damaged man emigrating from a country whose evils he knows to one whose evils he doesn’t, Lucien soon falls into his worst habits and impulses, with La Kay as the backdrop for his /5(50). My Mother’s House. “ “Momplaisir is a bold and powerful new voice, and My Mother’s House is poised to blow the roof off.”. ”. A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person's damages can have on the lives of others--told unexpectedly by a house that has held unspeakable horrors.
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My Mother’s House. “ “Momplaisir is a bold and powerful new voice, and My Mother’s House is poised to blow the roof off.”. ”. A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person's damages can have on the lives of others--told unexpectedly by a house that has held unspeakable horrors. A conversation with Francesca Momplaisir Author of My Mother’s House Q: What inspired you to write My Mother’s House? A: I don’t know that I was so much “inspired” as this was the novel that chose to come when it did. WHO: Francesca Momplaisir. WHAT: MY MOTHER’S HOUSE, a novel. WHEN: Published by Knopf . WHERE: The author lives in New York. WHY: “A shockingly original exploration of class, race, and systemic violence. “The lines from the opening paragraph of Francesca Momplaisir’s debut give the reader a sense of the shocks to come in this strange, disturbing novel.
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