Once upon a time there was a boy whose mother called him "Wolf" She
thought this name would bring him strength, luck, natural
authority, but how could she know that this boy would grow up to be
the gentlest and strangest of sons and that he would end up
captured like a wild animal There he is now, in the back of a
police van, as we turn the page It all begins with a crash. One
night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother's car and drives
six hundred kilometres in search of his sister, who left home ten
years ago. Unlicensed and on edge, he veers onto the wrong side of
the road and causes an accident. He is arrested, imprisoned, and
leaves his mother and sister to pick up the pieces. What follows is
an unflinching account of the events that lead to this moment, told
through the alternating perspectives of Wolf's mother, sister and
various other voices. In this raw and poignant novel, Nathacha
Appanah reveals how trauma shapes generations and the wounds it
leaves behind. The Sky Above the Roof is both a portrait of a
fractured family and a poetic exploration of the ways we break
apart and rebuild Translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan
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