La Bâtarde United States then threaten to rival or

then threaten to rival or even engulf the reality that gave birth to them" —Jonathan Lethem

In a mythical African land

Publication Date: 7/1/1994

his mother

La Bâtarde United States then threaten to rival orAn obsessive and revealing self portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Btarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and An obsessive and revealing self portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Btarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity