Tate Modern September Book of the Month. Publication launch with a ticketed event at Tate Modern Bookshop on 4 Oct. 2018, with the author and the translator in conversation with Michèle Roberts. An ideal short text to introduce readers to one of the greatest artists of our time and reveal her to those who know her work already. A deeply feminist book by a seventy-two-year-old male author. Cole Swensen is an American poet, translator and publisher. Her translation of Now, Now, Louison was a French-American Foundation Translation Prize finalist. She was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2004 and the recipient of a PEN USA Award for her translation of Fremon's The Island of the Dead. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses 2019 Listed in The Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: Fiction in translation Listed by Michele Roberts in The Tablet's Best Books of 2018 One of the 5 fiction finalists of the French-American Foundation Translation Awards. Finalist for the 2019 Big Other Book Award for Translation

Progressing by image and word associations, Fremon evokes Bourgeois's history and inner life, bringing a sense of fascinating and moving proximity to the internationally renowned artist... The art world's grande dame and its shameless old lady, who spun personal history into works of profound strangeness, speaks out with her characteristic insolence and wit, and comes to vibrant life again through the words of a most discrete, masterful writer. From her childhood in France to her exile and life in America, to her death; her relationships to her family and her young assistant, her views on landmark male artists, the genesis of her own work... through the moods, barbs, resentments, reservations and back, at full speed - this is a phosphorescent account of Bourgeois's life, as could only be captured by the imagination of one artist regarding another.