Justin Morin

On n’est plus des gens normaux

We’re no Longer Normal People

August 22, 2024
Novel
196 pages
16,90 €
9782385531096
978-2-3855-3109-6
																Justin Morin, On n’est plus des gens normaux
																Justin Morin, On n’est plus des gens normaux

In 2017, P. drove his car into the terrace of a restaurant. Angela, 13, died instantly. Dozens were injured. As a journalist at the time, Justin Morin covered the trial. He met the victim’s family and the perpetrator’s sister. Angela’s parents, Sacha and Betty, are demanding justice. The family, shattered by this tragedy, grows stronger with each passing day. By the end of the trial, the journalist is unable to finish his story. So the novelist takes over, trying to understand, blending fiction with reality by recreating the character of Lisa, the perpetrator’s sister. He questions reality by exploring the imaginary. With this dazzling debut, Justin Morin establishes himself as an essential new voice in documentary fiction, following in the footsteps of Emmanuel Carrère, Ivan Jablonka, and Florence Aubenas.

Shortisled for the Prix Stanislas du Premier Roman 2024
The author

Justin Morin is a 33-year-old author and former radio journalist for Europe 1, who left at the time Vincent Bolloré arrived. He pursued a master’s degree in creative writing. This enabled him to focus on writing a text about a trial he covered in April 2021, which becomes is debut, Des gens normaux to be out in next Rentrée littéraire.

Extracts

Justin Morin made a sensation on the French TV show La Grande Librairie.

August 22, 2024
Novel
196 pages
16,90 €
9782385531096
978-2-3855-3109-6