Really enjoyed Louis's writing about growing up in working-class France. It's a book about social progress or class metamorphosis and shows how socioeconomic and political conditions shape people's lives, and how government policy actually affects people. Through the story of his mum - a carefree twenty-year-old who became a socially isolated, impoverished mum of five surviving two abusive relationships to emerge as a real Parisienne strolling in the Luxembourg Gardens - he describes how society creates the context of poverty - the same body in a different environment becomes a different body. It's not an individual's choice to be violent but joblessness, and limited cultural or economic capital produces feelings of low self-efficacy. When working-class people fight for more money, they're fighting for families to be kinder, freer, and happier.