Scaffolding

A book by Lauren Elkin

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Scaffolding was released on June 13, 2024. This title is available to purchase now.

 Scaffolding  Release Date: June 13, 2024

Scaffolding

All This Could Be Yours: A Novel
All This Could Be Yours: A Novel
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12/01/2025 03:02 pm GMT

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.

In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London. Hence, she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clémentine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses.

Meanwhile, in 1972, Florence and Henry are redoing their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psychology while hoping to get pregnant. But Henry isn’t sure he’s ready for fatherhood…Both sets of couples face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy, against a backdrop of political disappointment and intellectual controversy.

The characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other, unaware that they once inhabited the same space. A novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, Scaffolding is about the bonds we create with people and the difficulty of ever fully severing them; about the ways that people we’ve known live on in us; and about the way that the homes we make hold communal memories of the people who’ve lived in them and the stories that have been told there.

All This Could Be Yours: A Novel
All This Could Be Yours: A Novel
$29.00 $25.06
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12/01/2025 03:02 pm GMT

Genre:  Literary Fiction 

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