Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to change her life—and that of her parents—all because of a school project about homeless teens. While doing research, Lou meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets. As their friendship grows, Lou bravely asks her parents if No can live with them, and is astonished when they agree. No's presence forces Lou's family to come to terms with a secret tragedy. But can this shaky, newfound family continue to live together when No's own past comes back to haunt her? Winner of the prestigious Booksellers' Prize in France, No and Me is a timely and thought-provoking novel about homelessness that has far-reaching appeal.

Sunday’s the day for home experiments: the reaction of different types of bread at setting eight on the toaster (sandwich loaf, baguette, Viennese, multi-grain), how long it takes for footprints to disappear on the damp floor, how long a mouth print takes to disappear from a misted-up mirror, comparative resistance test of a scrunchie and rubber band from the kitchen, evaporation test of Nesquik compared to instant coffee. After detailed analysis, I make a fair copy of the synthesis of my results in a notebook kept especially for this purpose. Since No’s been in the house I’ve had to take care of her when she’s not at work, I mean. That’s a sort of experiment too, at a very high level, a large-scale experiment against fate.