Vengeance Is Mine

LOVIA GYARKYE, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"The characters in Marie NDiaye's novels are an unsettling brood ... A master at agitating, probing and upending expectations ... She presents a new litter of misfits and constructs one of her most beguiling and visceral tales ... NDiaye deals in impressions and captures a particular kind of emotional delirium in Vengeance. She leans into jaggedness, twisting her narrative to mimic Maître Susane's fraying psychological state as she searches for a kind of truth."