The warmth of an outstretched hand.
Petit pas tells the story of an encounter, a gentle miracle. Martin and Mathilde are not even twenty years old and have already given up on their teenage dreams. Since the birth of their son Jean, they have been struggling to keep their heads above water. Mathilde is pregnant again, their family is not ready to help them, and they are condemned to the dull life of ordinary people who are crushed and forgotten by a competitive society. And then a hand is extended. That of Annie, their neighbor. A retired lady, a modest woman who wastes nothing, moves slowly, knows plants and the value of mutual aid. Annie is a listening ear, a Sunday in the vegetable garden, a dish of endives, a little time spent with the child. Step by step, Martin and Mathilde blossom again, pick themselves up and prepare for the arrival of their little girl. Time slows down and life is reborn.
Marion Richez gives us a novel that penetrates the body and acts like a balm. A text with a horizon of solidarity, a political meditation on the scale of a young family.
