The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux Brian Dillon Aingeala Flannery

Aingeala Flannery

DeJong designed Modern Love herself and published it with help from Dorothea Tanning on the short-lived Standard Editions imprint

Maisara Baroud

bursting with life and illustrated with the author's original ink drawings

and spirits

The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux Brian Dillon Aingeala FlanneryTranslated by Alison L. Strayer One Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her. The two womens conversation is perfectly audible; its scraps become etched forever in Annies memory. Before she was born, her parents had another daughter. She died at the age of six from diphtheria. Annie will never hear another word from her parents about this