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

This novel could have been a documentary. In 2017, P. drives his car into the terrace of a restaurant. Angela, 13, dies instantly. Dozens were injured. As a journalist at the time, Justin Morin covered the trial. He met a family and the perpetrator’s sister. The family is Angela’s, whose parents, Sacha and Betty, are demanding justice. An amputated family whose ties are growing stronger. At the end of the trial, the journalist is unable to put the finishing touches to his story. So the novelist takes over to try and understand. Reinventing a family story, tipping over into fiction by recreating the character of Lisa, the perpetrator’s sister. Questioning reality by delving into the imaginary.

With this dazzling debut, Justin Morin establishes himself as an essential new voice in documentary fiction, following Emmanuel Carrère, Ivan Jablonka or Florence Aubenas’s steps.

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.

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