The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown of Reims and rediscovers the working-class world he had left behind 30 years earlier. For years, Eribon had thought of his father largely in terms of the latter’s intolerable homophobia. Yet his father’s death provokes new reflection on Eribon’s part about how multiple processes of domination intersect in a given life and in a given culture. Eribon sets out to investigate his past, the history of his family, and the trajectory of his own life.