"Infinitely original.
A Woman's Story is every woman's story. [Its] power rests not in the drama of its main event but in moments that might escape unnoticed, if not for a writer desperate to recapture every last image that her memory reluctantly yields of a lost loved one."
-New York Times Book Review "[A] tender, tough and moving tribute to her mother's life and death ... In this lovely short book Miss Ernaux attempts to explain–or, perhaps, merely to understand–the complex roots and blossoms of a mother/daughter relationship by describing the life of the mother she has just lost."
-Washington Times "Nothing less than a minimalist revelation, a piece of writing so spare and sharp that it cuts straight to the heart with the accuracy of a surgeon's scalpel."
-Los Angeles Reader "[An] unadorned and powerful novel–with the calm and honesty that follow deep grief and reflection."
-Booklist "Somewhere along the way, and without losing the impact of specific details,
A Woman's Story transcends the individual. Ernaux finds the truth of her mothers life, and it turns out to be not one thing, but the whole story."
-St. Petersburg Times "An act of great love and of great pain."
-Bloomsbury Review
