Unfit

**A bracing novel that asks how far we would go for the ones we love―and what we would do to destroy the ones we hate** Lisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system’s sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she’s alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France picking grapes for a pittance, only allowed to see her children in supervised visits once a month. Scapegoated and outcast, destitute and desperate, Lisa decides to take radical action: early one morning, she sneaks into her in-laws’ farmhouse, takes back her children, sets the barn ablaze, and makes her escape. What follows is a white-knuckled road trip that explores human beings pushed to the edge. Clearly, Lisa is not in her right mind, and as Harwicz deftly mingles a chorus of contradictory voices into her very unreliable narration, the reader comes to regard the protagonist with an unsettling mixture of sympathy and suspicion. Written in savage, chiseled prose, *Unfit* shoots off, a gripping chase that questions all our assumptions―and points out our hypocrisies―about motherhood, custody rights, love, violence, antisemitism, and migration. The latest novel by the acclaimed author of *Die, My Love* (soon to be adapted to a film starring Jennifer Lawrence), *Unfit* is addictively terrifying, savagely sophisticated, and shockingly brilliant.