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Do lobotomies have a smell?

Adam Mars-Jones: Adèle Yon’s ‘Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth’, 5 March 2026

Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth 
by Adèle Yon.
Sous Sol, 392 pp., £18, February 2025, 978 2 36468 957 2
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... As Adèle Yon​ tells it in Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth, when she was eighteen she went to a party, taking with her a bag of weed. A distant cousin who was also at the party made a beeline for her, or for her stash (the two young women hadn’t spoken before). She shared it and left what remained when she went home ...

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