One morning, everything falls apart.
A sister dies.
And the world carries on, as if nothing had happened.
Faced with this sudden loss, there is no solution, no lesson, no possible reparation. There is only shock, bewilderment, anger, guilt, memories flooding back and the body taking the blow. So writing becomes a vital act. Writing so as not to disappear. Writing to stay upright in a world that is now split apart.
Habiter l’irréparable is the story of unvarnished grief, told from the perspective of personal experience. Day after day, the author explores what the death of a loved one does to the living: the violence of absence, the obsession with details, the temptation of nothingness, but also the flashes of memory, humour and tenderness that persist despite everything.
Neither a book of consolation nor a manifesto, this powerful and deeply human text asks an essential question: how can we continue to live when nothing can ever be repaired?
