The Easy Life

Francine Veyrenattes is twenty-five and already haunted by the sense that life is slipping past her. After a string of tragedies on her family’s farm, she drifts between crushing grief and numbing boredom, troubled by a growing detachment and an inability to move through the world as others seem to.

Seeking relief from whatever has taken hold of her, she goes to the coast, drawn by the promise of the sea. Instead of clarity, she begins to unravel. By day she lies in the sun, toes buried in sand; by night she dissolves in the solitude of her hotel room. As her inner crisis reaches its breaking point, Francine must confront whether—and how—she can claim authorship over her own life.