'B rilliantly spiky ... As well as boasting compelling sharp prose Name forces readers to
question what one's name means - and to who' AnOther Magazine Best Books of 2025
'Unsettling and beautiful admirably unabashed' Los Angeles Review of Books 'Debré's voice
is Camusian comic stark relentless and totally hypnotic' Rachel Kushner 'Written with
edge and urgency in a voice that is both vulnerable and in full command' Colm Tóibín 'Annie
Ernaux just edgier. Her prose is gorgeously spare and practical' Irish Independent Name is
Debré's most intense novel yet a fresh feat of sharp spare yet explosive prose. Set partly
in the narrator's childhood it explores ideas about origins and reshapes relationships to our
various inheritances: name family class habits. As the novel unravels freedom is revealed
as a redefining of these relationships on one's own terms. Brilliant and unflinching Name
affirms and extends Debré's radical project.
