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Piglettes (2014)

di Clementine Beauvais

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"The story of Mireille, Astrid, and Hakima made me cheer, cry, and cartwheel across the floor... One of the loveliest reading experiences I've had in years." -- Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Holding up the Universe A wickedly funny and life-affirming coming-of-age roadtrip story - winner of France's biggest prize for teen and YA fiction. Awarded the Gold, Silver and Bronze trotters after a vote by their classmates on Facebook, Mireille, Astrid and Hakima are officially the three ugliest girls in their school, but does that mean they're going to sit around crying about it? Well... yes, a bit, but not for long! Climbing aboard their bikes, the trio set off on a summer roadtrip to Paris, their goal: a garden party with the French president. As news of their trip spreads they become stars of social media and television. With the eyes of the nation upon them the girls find fame, friendship and happiness, and still have time to consume an enormous amount of food along the way.… (altro)
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It’s that time of year again. Mireille Laplanche logs on to Facebook to find out the results of the annual Pig Pageant competition, awarded to the ugliest girls in the school (run by Malo, her childhood best friend turned nemesis). She can normally rely on getting first prize, but she’s surprised to see that, this year, she has ignominiously dropped to third place: a mere bronze! Who are these two girls who’ve beaten her? Mireille is fascinated. She sets out to meet her fellow Pigs, Astrid Blomvall (Year 11; gold) and Hakima Idriss (Year 8; silver), both of whom are distraught by the news and (in Mireille’s view) need to grow thicker skins. World-weary Mireille does her best to comfort them and, as she gets to know her new friends, she finds herself conceiving a plan. What if they could defang the Pig Pageant, and turn social media to their advantage instead? Funny, inspiring and heartfelt, this is a tale of the underdogs taking control of the narrative: a very modern story of determination, adventure, and sausages. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourself to meet your new heroines: the Piglettes...

For the full review, please see my blog:
https://theidlewoman.net/2021/04/24/piglettes-clementine-beauvais/ ( )
  TheIdleWoman | May 16, 2021 |
Please note that this review distinguishes between normative conservatives, right-wing conservatives, and Nazi-supporting misogynist muslim-hating right-wing French nationalists, because these groups of people aren't identical.

112/2020. This novel won the most prestigious YA prize in France. It's about three girls aged 16, 15, and 12, who are bullied at their school by, amongst other things, a three year long campaign of online misogynist hate directed by a self-identified and named classmate of one of them. The school, of course, does nothing and the local paper runs an article ignoring the victims and giving a positive spin to the misogynist hate campaign. So far so normative. The girls, who have been labelled "pigs", decide for various less than believable reasons (but whatevs this is supposed to be an escapist fantasy, amirite?!) to cycle across France and gatecrash an important garden party being held by the female President (I note France has never had a female head of state and the only woman Prime Minister lasted 11 months). This sets the reader up for a feel-good romp across France with three delightful teen-ish protagonists and the disabled older brother of the 12 year old. And, if you're a Nazi-supporting misogynist muslim-hating right-wing French nationalist then that's exactly what you'll get.

I was completely suckered in by the cynically witty female teen protagonist and faux good intentions in the first third, and it does make some points that even many right-wing conservatives would accept about, for example, how Good Immigrant golden-brown secular Muslims of the hyper-assimilated type who participate in French food culture by promoting, cooking, and selling pork sausages, and who fight loyally in the French military against the people of "Problemistan" [sic] are still unfairly rejected by ordinary white French citizens. But then it starts asking, um, awkward, um, questions about whether it was really wrong for French girls to fall in love with and support Nazis, and whether shaving their heads and saying uncomplimentary things to them wasn't excessive punishment, and it justifies this by pointing out that innocent girls were also targeted but doesn't point out that innocent girls were targeted because of French misogyny and the consequences of unhealthy competing nationalisms (although it is noted that the issues are "complicated" - not too "complicated" to bring up, obviously, but too "complicated" to discuss satisfactorily apparently).

Then the verbally bullying misogynist teenage boy attacks with a knife and tries "to gut" one of the "piglettes" (who're selling pork sausages made of pig guts). The "piglette" manages to avoid the stabbing attack and persuades the murderously violent misogynist, who had previously also attacked and disabled his victims' bicycles, to hand himself in to the police... but she then lies to the police by claiming the misogynist bullying and violence is all her fault and that she provoked him (so reducing the already small chance the perpetrator might get help and reform instead of remaining a violent misogynist into adulthood). Eep.

The plot goes on to fulfil several more layers of Shaenon Garrity's version of the Seven Ages of Man:
1. he's too young to know any better
2. boys will be boys lol
3. he likes beer
4. let's not spoil his promising future
5. she's just jealous of his success
6. it was so long ago
7. he's too old to know any better
(Addendum not by SG:
8. Speak no ill of the dead.
9. He lived during different times.)

The novel ends after the girls have confirmed their friendship, because nobody else will socialise with the "pigs", and raised some money for charities (military veterans, anti-bullying, and girls' sport - again nothing most conservatives would find controversial), with a fable about human nature and the futility of resistance. It's well-written, like the novel as a whole, and is set-up earlier in the story so it's difficult to summarise, but the gist is that society has always driven the animals it feeds on over cliffs and the only way for them to escape is to grow magical wings but, of course, that's impossible so society's fodder will go on dying... including those designated "pigs", our pork sausage selling "piglettes", because reclaiming a word such as "piglettes" doesn't change society so the hunted would be better off allying with and serving their masters than trying to run away and failing and dying (which is exemplified in the adult role models: Kader who is loyal to the French military, Mireille's mum who pops out babies for her men, Phillipe "Rotary Club" Dumont who is the best suburban father, the Pétainist elderly warden at the chateau, the various guardians of French food culture, even Astrid's supposedly "hippy" but actually conservative Catholic mum). Remember, the story says, that pigs can't fly.

So, if that's your sort of book then this is for you! Eep. ( )
  spiralsheep | Aug 25, 2020 |
Translated by the author from its original french, Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais was a delight to read. Not wanting people to know how she really feels about being lauded as one of the three ugliest girls at school, Mireille embraces her status as a Piglette and uses her wit and humor to shield herself. When the three Piglettes get together they form a friendship and embark upon a coming of age journey that has the girls setting off on a bike trip to Paris, their plan is to gate crash a garden party with the French President and each girl has her own particular reason for wanting to be there.

I found Piglettes to be a light hearted, cheerful and funny story that actually covers some very serious issues about judging people by how they look on the surface and bullying. These girls, Mireille, Astrid and Hakima are quirky, interesting characters that are fun to cheer on.

The author’s unique style, tongue-in-cheek humor and strong feminist ideas form the backbone of this book. I did wonder if Mireille seemed a little too sophisticated to be a sixteen year old but her background could easily explain this so I just accepted it and went along for the ride. This is an adventurous story about blossoming friendship, hope and finding ones own inner power. ( )
  DeltaQueen50 | Feb 16, 2020 |
Mireille, Astrid, and Hakima are voted the three ugliest girls in their high school, and find common ground in a trip to Paris to crash the July 14th party given by the President. This is about beauty, resilience, social media, bullying, served with a lot of snark and garnished with sentiment. ( )
  quondame | Nov 3, 2019 |
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"The story of Mireille, Astrid, and Hakima made me cheer, cry, and cartwheel across the floor... One of the loveliest reading experiences I've had in years." -- Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Holding up the Universe A wickedly funny and life-affirming coming-of-age roadtrip story - winner of France's biggest prize for teen and YA fiction. Awarded the Gold, Silver and Bronze trotters after a vote by their classmates on Facebook, Mireille, Astrid and Hakima are officially the three ugliest girls in their school, but does that mean they're going to sit around crying about it? Well... yes, a bit, but not for long! Climbing aboard their bikes, the trio set off on a summer roadtrip to Paris, their goal: a garden party with the French president. As news of their trip spreads they become stars of social media and television. With the eyes of the nation upon them the girls find fame, friendship and happiness, and still have time to consume an enormous amount of food along the way.

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