S'adapter is the story of a disabled child's life as told by his siblings. The child lies still, his eyes wandering, his arms and legs inert. At first, his parents think he's blind. This is the story of a child who draws an invisible line between his family and the others, and redefines the roles of his brothers and sister, whose childhoods are forever changed. First, there's the eldest, who merges with the child, becomes attached to him, abandons himself to him and loses himself in him. Then there's the younger sister, in whom disgust and anger take root, and who rejects the child who sucks the joy out of her parents. And finally, there's the youngest brother, born later, who lives in the shadow of the family ghosts, while carrying the hopes of the present. The book is also written as a tale where stones speak and deliver their story in the heart of a village perched in the protective and powerful mountains of the Cévennes.

Clara Dupont-Monod (b. 1973), a French journalist and writer from an important French Protestant family, wrote a number of historical novels before publishing S'adapter in 2021, a moving, magnificent and brilliant tale tinged with autobiography. The book won numerous awards, including the Prix Femina and the prestigious Prix Goncourt des lycéens.