Love Me Tender

Synopsis

After leaving her marriage, abandoning a successful legal career, and embracing life as a lesbian, a woman finds herself paying an unimaginable price. When her ex-husband wins primary custody of their young son, she is left to rebuild her life from almost nothing. Living in borrowed apartments, hotel rooms, and tiny rented spaces, she drifts through a series of brief relationships while grappling with profound loss, loneliness, and the demands of forging an authentic life.

Written with startling honesty and emotional precision, Love Me Tender is a fearless autobiographical novel about motherhood, desire, freedom, and identity. Refusing sentimentality or easy answers, Constance Debré examines what it means to reject conventional expectations while insisting on the right to live truthfully. Spare, intimate, and uncompromising, it is a powerful meditation on love in all its forms.

About the Author

Constance Debré is a French novelist and former lawyer whose autobiographical fiction has earned international acclaim for its radical honesty and minimalist style. Since leaving her legal career in 2015, she has become one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary French literature. Love Me Tender is translated from the French by Holly James.

Publisher
Semiotext(e)

Publication Date
June 14, 2022

Format
Paperback

Pages
176

Subjects
Literary Fiction · Translated Fiction · LGBTQ+ Fiction · French Literature

ISBN
9781635901740