This strange, visceral, haunting memoir finds 83-year-old French writer Nathalie Sarraute looking back on her first 12 years. But, unlike most memoirs,
Childhood is not written by a single author; Sarraute gives voice and character to her own memory, and together, in dialogue, they interrogate, tease, and provoke each other as Sarraute attempts to describe, in precise, vivid prose, both the wonders and mystery of childhood and the elusive nature of memory itself