Crazy Genie by Schillinger Liesl

Crazy Genie by Schillinger Liesl

A young girl clings fiercely to the damaged love of her mother-a taciturn farmworker cast out by her family and scorned by her village-in this devastating and lyrically rendered novel from a French-Italian maverick.

Marie lives with her mother, Genie, in a ramshackle house by a willow-lined river in rural France. Every morning, Genie walks to the neighboring farms to do what work there is to be done. When farmers and villagers greet her, she says nothing, and keeps walking. Once, she was a lighthearted girl from the best family in the valley; now they all call her "Crazy Genie." While her mother works, Marie waits, yearning for her mother to notice her, longing for the moment when they will be back in their lonely house by the river.

Told in Marie's ingenuous, straightforward voice, Crazy Genie is the second novel by In s Cagnati, who grew up in poverty in rural France in the 1940s, the child of Italian immigrant agricultural workers. Rich in observation and detail, and devastating in its portrayal of a child's unconditional love and of society's callous prejudices, Crazy Genie, together with her first novel, Free Day, confirms Cagnati's astonishing power as a writer.

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ISBN 13	9798896230205
Title	Crazy Genie
Author	Inès Cagnati
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New York Review Books
Year published	2026-03-24
Number of pages	160
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