A Brief Stay with the Living by Marie Darrieussecq gradually reveals the terrible event which connects four women, a mother and three daughters, now scattered between the South of France and Buenos Aires.

Marie Darrieussecq tells the story of a single day in the life of a mother and her three grown-up daughters. Now scattered between the South of France and Buenos Aires, all four women are still connected by an incident from their past - a terrible event that the story gradually reveals . . .