Annie Ernaux caps a remarkable stretch of unorthodox memoirs with `The Years`
(LA Times Dodgers)

Annie Ernaux is ruthless. I mean that as a compliment. Perhaps no other memoirist - if, in fact, memoir-writing is what Ernaux is up to, which both is and isn´t the case - is so willing to interrogate not only the details of her life but also the slippery question of identity. Beginning with her...