Jeudi, or how an appealing student-run theatre company winds up turning into a terrorist cell. Three drama students found a theatre collective. But, put off by the reception of their first production, they decide to change their goals and become revolutionaries. Then they meet a more… virulent revolutionary theater collective. But France isn’t big enough for TWO revolutionary theatre collectives.

Two narrators, two plays, and a revolutionary manifesto… it might seem disconcerting. Yet Jeudi leads readers from noisy laughter to horrified fear. Drawn in by the story of these young people in search of a sense of cohesion, gripped by the fast-paced tale, readers will be overwhelmed by the series of catastrophes presented in Eden Levine’s singular style.

This is a profoundly youthful text, not because it’s naïve, but because it conveys energy, ardor, indignation, absolutism, honor, integrity and a refusal to compromise. Pure fiction that’s perfectly in touch with contemporary human life.

Caustic, tender, and revolting.