Sanaë Lemoine is a writer and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellow. Born in Paris to a Japanese mother and French father, she grew up in France and Australia. The Margot Affair: A Novel (Hogarth) is her first book. Margot Louve has lived her whole life as a secret. The hidden daughter of a long-standing affair, she exists with her mother in the shadows, living in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank. But Margot longs to be seen and heard, and in the summer of her 17th birthday, she meets a well-regarded journalist who will set her plan in motion. Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, and she learns how one impulsive decision can shatter the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined. Exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affair is an exploration of desire, transgression, and the dangers of speaking the truth.
