In this melancholic and funny book, writer Yasmina Reza depicts the life of several characters struggling with life, their own neuroses and their family and friends. Written as short stories that follow one another without any clear link, each one is a playlet of daily life where the drama -whether it is emotional, personal or existential- happens where we do not expect it. Habits crack and life turns into a real fight against oneself or against others, but, as is often the case with Reza, it is laughter that triumphs over violence and dismay: the comic situation is the very experience of freedom. This little book is undoubtedly one of the best of Yasmina Reza, written with great tact and sensitivity. The book received the Prix Littéraire Le Monde in 2013 when it was published.

Yasmina Reza (born in 1959) is a French writer, playwright and screenwriter known in particular since 1994 for her play Art and in 2006 with Le Dieu du Carnage, adapted to the cinema by Roman Polanski.

We read this book in the fall of 2022.