Anne Lardeux The Second Substance Paperback Book Anne Lardeux Multicolor

Squatters at a rural gas station try to find freedom and build something new on the ashes of our petrocivilization in this sensual novel.A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas station.They spend their days ripping up asphalt, drinking beer and eating hot dogs, and wandering through woods and towns in search of new ways of living.People come and go: a charismatic landscaper, Italian anarchists, a policewoman, travellers.A teenager drifts into homelessness. And The Girl With No Name keeps a journal of her attempts to meet new people and sleep with them, sex that is “not a sideline” but the motivating force in a story she is struggling to understand. Neighbors grow hostile. An investigation threatens the community. Tension builds between the surface violence of “normal life” and the attempt of these outsiders to experience freedom and build something new on the ashes of our oil-addicted society. With a character borrowed from Agnès Varda’s Vagabond and inspiration taken from