Salut les lecteurs! 

Pour le prochain rendez-vous de fREADom, on se vera à la Piazza dei Sogni de Rimini, pour parler de Une vie à coucher dehors, de S. Tesson.

Vous pouvez retrouver ses histoires ici.

Bonnes vacances de toute l'équipe fREADom!

The Thing Around Your Neck: some reviews

The stories I appreciated the most were probably the second and the third one. That's because, in "the American embassy", the protagonist figures out that his son's death can't be seen as a way to gain the visa. She simply decides that she has to live her remaining time in the best way possible. 

On the other hand, in "the arrange of marriage", I felt pity for the woman, who cannot keep her culture alive in a foreign country. In fact, she has been forced to adopt a new lifestyle, which is too tough for her. 

Reading these stories, I figured out that journeys sometimes are disappointing, despite our initial bright expectations. So, we should not take things for granted, in order to avoid unexpected risks.

T. D. B.

“They had used some of the money you sent to give him a good funeral”.

When Akuna was in America she used to support her parents economically in Nigeria.This made her family think that she had succeeded in making success and to realize the so-called "American dream". In reality what for them could be "so much" for his new life in Usa was little. In fact, she didn't feel she had achieved success, on the contrary she struggled to feel alive in a context where people worried only about the less important things, it was as if her problems were wrapped in her neck ready to choke her. The moment of the shower is a moment of epiphany, after which she decides to write her parents. In the shower she realizes that she is not happy and chooses to get in contact with her family, with her old identity. She feels displaced and not understood by the only person who seems to care about her. After she becomes aware of the distance between the boy’s culture and hers, she looks for her family, probably to find some comfort.

I. F., E. P.