My heart hemmed in

Description:

"There is something very wrong with Nadia and her husband Ange, middle-aged provincial schoolteachers who slowly realize that they are despised by everyone around them. One day a savage wound appears in Ange's stomach, and as Nadia fights to save her husband's life their hideous neighbor Noget--a man everyone insists is a famous author--inexplicably imposes his care upon them. While Noget fattens them with ever richer foods, Nadia embarks on a nightmarish visit to her ex-husband and estranged son--is she abandoning Ange or revisiting old grievances in an attempt to save him?"--Amazon.com.

subjects: Parent-teacher relationships,  Fiction,  College teachers,  Hostility (Psychology),  Husband and wife,  Teachers,  Alienation (Social psychology),  French fiction,  Romance literature,  Fiction, psychological,  France, fiction,  FICTION / Literary,  Teachers -- France -- Fiction,  Alienation (Social psychology) -- Fiction,  Hostility (Psychology) -- Fiction,  Husband and wife -- France -- Fiction,  French fiction -- 21st century

Places: France

Times: 21st century