November 28, 2022 – Young Student Novel Prize

Author Claire Baglin will be present on Monday, November 28, at 6 p.m. in Lecture Hall 1 of Building 36 to discuss her novel *En salle*, published by Editions de Minuit.

She will be interviewed by students from UM, and the discussion will be followed by questions from the audience in attendance and those joining via videoconference. This event is open to everyone, and we hope to see many of you there.  

His first novel, selected by France Culture and Télérama, takes an original approach to the theme of working in fast-food restaurants.

On a kids’ menu, you’ll find a neatly wrapped burger, fries, a drink, sauces, and a toy—it’s a dream come true. And then, a few years later, you’re preparing orders at the drive-thru, wiping down tables, and following managers’ orders: you’re working at a fast-food restaurant. Through two alternating narratives, the narrator of *En salle* recounts this gap. On one hand, a childhood shaped by the figure of a working-class father. On the other, her twenty years at a fast-food restaurant, where she encounters repetitive motions, a body pushed to its limits, emptiness, and alienation.

Claire Baglinwas born in 1998. *En salle* is her first novel.