the years by annie ernaux / tr. alison l. strayer

Jeanine Nault

““During that summer of 1980, her youth seems to her an endles light-filled space whose every corner she occupies. She embraces it whole with the eyes of the present and discerns nothing specific. That this world is now behind her is a shock. This year, for the first time, she seized the terrible meaning of the phrase ‘I have only one life.’ Perhaps she already sees herself as the old woman in Cria”

Matthew Chrisler

@chrismattler

Lauren G

@laureng