A Woman's Story

Annie Ernaux. Ballantine Books, $15 (108pp) ISBN 978-0-345-37623-7

This semi-autobiographical novel is a brief, aching requiem for the Prix Renaudot-winning author's mother, a victim of Alzheimer's disease. Ernaux's latest, A Man's Place , will be published in April by Four Walls Eight Windows. (May)

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