Look at Those Lights, Honey
About This Novel
Anne Ernault has always pushed the conventional boundaries of which stories are worth telling and which themes are worth exploring. In this book, she sets her sights on big box stores and supermarkets. This is a ubiquitous feature of modern life but one that has received little attention in literature. Ernault spent more than a year documenting her visits to Auchan, a large supermarket chain located in the suburbs of Paris. In her view, the supermarket is "a huge human gathering place, a real cultural landscape." Capital production, cultural production and class stratification converge here and govern our desires. Ernault uses her ruthlessly sharp observation to look at this place that we think we are familiar with, calling on us to explore those daily routines that have been ignored by us, and to peer deeper into ordinary life.
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