A GOOD RETURN

It's the start of the 6th grade for Grosso Modo, and everything is new: the establishment and its codes, comrades and teachers, this absolute annoyance that it arouses in him his handicapped brother Soleil, this feeling of depression which inhabits him and which he does not cannot be explained... But the new thing that changes everything is the arrival of André, the son of the fisherman. Fully immersed in adolescence, everything that Grosso Modo will experience will be exacerbated: from romantic feelings to self-loathing. Writing Margot Soulat's poetry lightly frees itself from realism and norms temporal to better show us the essential: adolescence as perceived by its protagonist himself. The book is endowed with an internal musicality - punctuated by songs -, where humor, seriousness, and derision. Margot Soulat's loose drawing always rings true. From her point of view from a gentle, poetic and compassionate point of view, the author leads us to appreciate the memory of our adolescence like a mental talisman enclosing the essence of our affirmed individuality.