For December we’ll be reading ***Discretion* by Faïza Guène; Translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone**
Available at Waterstones: [https://www.waterstones.com/book/discretion/faiza-guene/sarah-ardizzone/9780863569760](https://www.waterstones.com/book/discretion/faiza-guene/sarah-ardizzone/9780863569760) \| 240 pages \|

Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. These days, she strives for a quiet life, grateful to the country that hosts her and her adored family. The closest she gets to drama is scooping ‘revolutionary’ bargains in the form of plastic kitchenware gadgets.

But Yamina’s children feel differently about life in Paris. They don’t always fit in, and it hurts. Omar wonders whether it’s too late to change course as he watches the world pass him by from the driver’s seat of his Uber. His sisters are tired of having to prove themselves and their allegiance to a place that is at once home, and not. When the Talebs go away together on holiday – not to the motherland, but to a villa-with-pool rental near the Atlantic coast – they come to realise just how strongly family defines our sense of belonging.

Moving between Algeria and Paris, *Discretion* touchingly evokes the realities of a first- and second-generation family as they carve out a future for themselves in France, finding one another as they go along.

Faïza Guène is an award-winning French Algerian writer and director. Spotted at a writing workshop at the age of thirteen, she went on to make an astonishing literary debut with *Kiffe kiffe demain* (*Just Like Tomorrow*), which was an international bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Her other novels in English (also translated by Sarah Ardizzone to critical acclaim) include *Dreams from the Endz*, *Bar Balto* and *Men Don’t Cry*. Guène has directed several short films and is a co-writer on Disney+ Star’s Bafta-nominated Original mini-series, *Oussekine*.

Aaron

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