Playboy
(Book)

Published in France in 2018, Playboy is the first volume of Constance Debré’s renowned debut trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer. The novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator’s descriptions of her first female lovers — a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior — are punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband, her father, and her son.