On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean-Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting at the school attended by Gabriel, our eldest son. He was five years old, the same age as Antoine Romand. Then we went to have lunch with my parents, as Jean-Claude Romand did with his, whom he killed after their meal.
the opening of The Adversary, by Emmanuel Carrère
quoted in The First Rule Is Not to Lie
The New Yorker, July 11 & 18, 2022
The New Yorker, July 11 & 18, 2022
