Laetitia Faure - Possédés - Silencio Book Club

Possédés is Laetitia Faure’s debut novel. In a series of short chapters, the narrator recounts her childhood and adolescence under the seal of religion, blending intimate experience with the socio-cultural context from the 1980s to the present day. As an adult, she reflects on her bewilderment within the promises of personal development. Laetitia Faure explores the grip of beliefs, the weight of conventionality, control and its excesses. She states, unflinchingly, what power does to the social body as well as to women’s bodies. A tale of violence long stifled within her, Possédés is also an escape and a liberation, the emergence of a profoundly singular voice.