All Happy Families

“Acutely observed…An unexpected coming-of-age tale.” —BBC

“Moving…The writing is unquestionably sincere.” —Kirkus Reviews

“What distinguishes Le Tellier’s memoir from the glut of family memoirs that have captivated and horrified readers over the last twenty years? In part, it’s the author’s plastic imagination: his willingness to let language loose on the discoveries he’s made about the family…he brings warmth and intelligibility to cold, lost lives.” —Kenyon Review

“A harrowing…and searingly honest reflection on family dysfunction.” —France Today

“All Happy Families pulls apart the fabric of a dysfunctional family to show its underpinnings, complex and heartbreaking, delicate and nuanced…Le Tellier’s masterful writing does his characters justice while not letting them go unscathed, and his ability to see his life and his family with tenderness and love is a blueprint for how we can continue in the face of our pasts. A tender and moving read, its stories stayed with me long after the last page.” —Tanya Marquardt, author of Stray: Memoir of a Runaway

Praise for Eléctrico W:

“An engaging snapshot of these [characters’] briefly intersecting lives.” —New York Times Book Review

“Romantic and atmospheric, this novel also benefits from a particularly fine sense of place and time…witty, sad, and interesting.” —Publishers Weekly

“Delicate handling of deep themes–loss, missed connections, meaninglessness–gives the novel an emotional charge.” —Kirkus Reviews

Herve Le Tellieris a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. He has been a member of the Oulipo group since 1992 and one of the “papous” of the famous France Culture radio show. He has published fifteen books of stories, essays, and novels, includingEnough About Love(Other Press, 2011),The Sextine Chapel(Dalkey Archive Press, 2011), andA Thousand Pearls(Dalkey Archive Press, 2011).Adriana Hunterstudied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than eighty books, including Veronique Olmi’sBakhitaand Herve Le Tellier’sElectrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation’s 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.

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