# Black Forest

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- Book: [Black Forest](https://www.bookquiver.com/valerie-mrejen/black-forest) ([Black Forest.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/valerie-mrejen/black-forest.md))
- Authors: [Valerie Mrejen](https://www.bookquiver.com/valerie-mrejen)
- Publisher: The Unnamed Press
- ISBN: 978-19-4470-090-4
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2019-11-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A man decides he is old enough. A woman returns early from a lovers' retreat to a bottle of pills at home. And how should you explain the nuances of contemporary Paris to your mother, twenty – five years dead? Valérie Mr éjen 's Black Forest is a book of mourning that isn ' t morbid or sentimental, but rather an elegant and wryly humorous brace against the void. With a paradoxically detached intimacy, Mr éjen follows death's dark and twisted path through the lives it touches, wringing out every possible meaning—or non–meaning— along the way. A writer at the height of her career who draws comparisons to Georges Perec and Nathalie Sarraute, Mr éjen has cemented her status as an auteur with a singular voice, guiding us through the Black Forest of ghosts that populate her subconscious.