Catherine Certitude

We always stay the same, and the people we have been in the past go on living until the end of time.

Catherine Certitude remembers her past, living with her dreamer of a father, her ballet lessons, the letters from her mother in New York, in this short story by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick Modiano, illustrated by the brilliant Jean-Jacques Sempe. As Publishers Weekly said, "This lovely book suggests the delicacy and strength of an eggshell. It demands a nuanced understanding of the past and human foibles."