These short stories are all by an author who describes scenes from her own life, often brief, and most often brutal. Yet, they occasionally offer glimpses of truths about life. In some of them, we encounter André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Roy Lichtenstein, a stay at the writers' residence in the Saorge monastery, a publisher, the author's father, Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange, and the daughter of the great Post-Impressionist painter, Pierre Klossowski. Laure Fardoulis hunts down all the little flaws, the false promises, the biased and ridiculous behaviors she perceives in each of her contemporaries. She describes atmospheres, houses, towns, and environments as well as the men and women she meets. It recounts stays in Sidi Ifni or Essaouira in Morocco, on the Île de Ré, in the Consul's house in Saint-Louis, Senegal, in Cisternino, Schiavonea, Alba, or on the island of Stromboli in Italy, in Cuba, weekends with friends, or stays with friends invited to Paris. Laure Fardoulis has a gift for description, quick and precise, instantly capturing the atmosphere of each place. But it is always the people, the encounters, that are the starting point of each story: a character trait, an eccentricity, that sometimes shapes an entire life, sometimes a deviant one… Differences in everyone's lives and specificities that we all encounter daily. Human, most human! Publication: September 1, 2025 Order Press Release