Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone.
De Vigan lives in Paris..
Nothing Holds Back the Night has sold over half a million copies in France, and is being translated into more than 25 languages.
About the Author: Delphine de Vigan is the author of several novels, two of them available in English: No and Me, awarded the 2008 Prix des Libraires (Bookseller\'s Prize), and Underground Time, shortlisted for the 2009 Prix Goncourt.
Nothing Holds Back the Night is a remarkable work, universally recognizable and singularly heartbreaking.
De Vigan writes her most expansive novel yet with acute self-awareness and marvelous sympathy.
And in the face of the unknowable, personal history becomes fiction: De Vigan must choose from differing accounts and fill in important gaps, using her writer\'s imagination to reconstruct a life.
There are revelations and there is the ultimately unknowable.
There are untimely deaths and failures of memory.
It is a history of luminous beauty and rambunctious joy, of dark secrets and silences.
Young Delphine was left to wonder: What changed her, or what shaped her all along?In this brilliant investigation into her own family history, Delphine de Vigan attempts to "write her mother," seeking out something essential as she interviews aging relatives, listens to recordings, and reads Lucile\'s own writings.
She became convinced she was telepathic and in control of the Paris metro system; she gave away all her money; she was hospitalized, medicated, and released in a kind of trance.
But as Delphine grew up, Lucile\'s occasional sadness gave way to overwhelming despair and delusion.
She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful.
Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone
