May’s 📚 : A Leopard-Skin Hat - Anne Serre (2023, 100+ pages, France):

This is a story about the stories we tell, revolving around the relationship between the character of the Narrator (not to be confused with the narrator of the book itself, who occasionally interjects— “I wouldn’t count on it”) and his friend Fanny. Serre makes use of fiction to question what fiction does: to question the relationship between a person and a character, a narrator and their creation. Exuberantly anti-realist, this one is a sparse, intensive look at our struggle to understand mental illness, companionship, and despair.

** I have not read this book yet! I pull from synopsis and reviews online to get an understanding of what to expect.**

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