Slimani had just won the Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, which counts among its laureates Proust and Malraux. Feeling somehow protective of the story, I was both beguiled and a little shocked by Slimani’s audacity in laying claim to it. Once in a while, someone else’s misery penetrates the carapace of self-absorption under which you scuttle around and gets deep into you. The murders happened in 2012, but I remembered them in all their excruciating particulars: that the mother had been at a swimming lesson with a third sibling that they came home and found the boy and the girl bleeding in the bathtub that the nanny, who tried to slit her own throat, said she was upset at having been asked to take on cleaning duties that the couple has since had two more kids. I was initially drawn to it because I’d read that its author, Leïla Slimani, had been inspired by a news item about a New York nanny who killed the two children in her care. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone.Ī year ago, I picked up a book, “Chanson Douce,” that I’ve thought about pretty much every day since. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.Īudio: Listen to this story. She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and two daughters. and the nonfiction Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories.
MERRY JONES is the author of eight books, including the humorous bestseller I Love Him, But. "A page-turning success.hard to put down." A bloodthirsty predator lurks nearby, perhaps concealed behind a passing stranger's friendly smile, a longtime neighbor's front door-or, as Zoe fears most, perhaps even nearer than that. Now, Zoe must accept that nobody in Queen Village is protected. Uneasily drawn into the chilling case-and an unexpected relationship-by enigmatic Detective Nick Stiles, Zoe assumes she and Molly are safe. One by one, young nannies are vanishing from the neighborhood, falling victim to a shadowy killer.
What Zoe longs to believe is a gruesome fluke quickly takes on unsettling significance. Then comes the blustery afternoon when little Molly makes a shocking discovery while playing outdoors: a dismembered finger. Single parenthood is challenging enough for Zoe Hayes, raising a young daughter in Queen Village, a Philadelphia suburb whose homes-like its residents-have seen better days.
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