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I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, & then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline & her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. "A small, powerful, & overwritten memoir of a mother’s slow deterioration & death in a nursing home... The impact of this courageous, sometimes unsubtle little book is sure to not pass away quickly." — Kirkus ReviewsIn the summer of 1983, Annie Ernaux's mother fell ill & stopped eating & drinking for several days. Her memory started to lapse & later the same year she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This collection of relentlessly honest journal entries traces the descent of Ernaux's mother into the depths of disease & reveals the author's own complex feelings of guilt & responsibility. Profoundly self-revealing, it is a work that will provide readers with insight into their own questions of loss & grief."As always, Ernaux's marriage of opposites - disgust & adoration, revulsion & emulation, dirt-physical & heady-theoretical - takes place on the whitest of pages. Ernaux's opposites rip her in two in spite of her spare languages ... [Her] art is in her fight with words." — Los Angeles TimesI Remain in Darkness is a new high watermark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power & her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life's particular music. An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, & of both women's strength & resiliency.°°° Annie Ernaux is a French writer. She won the Prix Renaudot in 1984 for her book La Place, an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father & her experiences growing up in a small town in France, & her subsequent process of moving into adulthood & away from her parents' place of origin. WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women’s strength and resiliency. I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie’s attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman’s gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. I Remain in Darkness is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life’s particular music. A Washington Post Top Memoir of 1999 **__Washington Post__ Top Memoir of 1999**An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency. "I Remain in Darkness" recounts Annie's attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. "I Remain in Darkness" is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life's particular music. Washington Post Top Memoir of 1999 An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency. "I Remain in Darkness" recounts Annie's attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. "I Remain in Darkness" is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life's particular music. A woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease is taken in by her daughter who records her decline. The daughter narrates, "Today she was holding a corner of her blouse (smock), clutching onto it. In the elevator, she stood facing the mirror. I am sure she could see herself." By a French writer, author of Simple Passion