The Margot Affair, Sanaë Lemoine

I was expecting to be drawn in by the central plot premise of this novel — a young woman is the secret daughter of a prominent politician who has a quiet life with her mother on the side, and on the eve of her high school graduation, decides that she wants to reveal the truth. But I was pleasantly surprised by the way that the plot is aslant from that potentially sensational tale; focusing instead on the relationship between the girl and her mother, and how you ‘grow up.’ Every time I thought I knew what the novel was doing, it surprised me by doing something else. I’m still thinking about it, a month later.