# Woman's Battles and Transformations

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- Authors: [Édouard Louis](https://www.bookquiver.com/edouard-louis)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-05-05
- Genres: Family and health, Popular medicine and health, Lifestyle and personal style guides

## Description

Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Barrios Book in Translation PrizeEdouard Louis's bracing and honest memoir of his mother's liberation-a " poetic, tender, joyous" account (The Guardian). Late one night, Edouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: " I did it. I left your father." Suddenly, she was free. A Woman's Battles and Transformations is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman's escape: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives-and with the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Edouard Louis, " one of France's most widely read and internationally successful novelists" (The New York Times Magazine).

## Editions

### Woman's Battles and Transformations

- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-12-5044-983-2
- Published: 2026-05-05
- Language: en_US