Winner of multiple prizes, Neige Sinno has created a powerful literary form with Sad Tiger, a book thattook France by storm and is an international phenomenon.

Sad Tiger is built on the facts of a series of devastating events. Neige Sinno was seven years old when her stepfather started sexually abusing her. At 19, she decided to break the silence that is so common in all cultures around sexual violence. This led to a public trial and prison for her stepfather and Sinno started a new life in Mexico.

Through the construction of a fragmented narrative, Sinnoexplores the different facets of memoryher own, her mothers, as well as her abusive stepfathers; and of abuse itself in all its monstrosity and banality.Her account is woven together with a close reading of literary works by Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Christine Angot, and Virginie Despentes among others.

Sad Tigerthe title inspired by William Blakes poemThe Tygeris a literary exploration into how to speak about the unspeakable. In this extraordinary bookthere is an abiding concern: how to protect others from whatthe author herself endured? In the midst of so much darkness, an answer reads crystal clear: by speaking up and asking questions.A striking, shocking, and necessary masterpiece.

Paperback | 224 pages | 5.50″ x 8.25″