This strange eventful history : a novel

A family story of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family’s strangeness; of François’s union with Barbara, a woman so culturally different they can barely comprehend one another and of Chloe, the result of that union, who believes that telling these buried stories will bring them all peace.