Rückkehr nach Reims (Returning to Reims)
First published in 2009, Didier Eribon's memoir Returning to Reims follows the French sociologist's return from cosmopolitan Paris to his small hometown in the wake of his father's death and after decades away. Having grown up gay in a working-class family with a homophobic father as patriarch, Eribon employs his own complicated journey 'home' as a path through which to address questions of political fragmentation an…