-I-m under twenty-five and I am unable to envision the future. I-m not the only one." Survive? presents a singular voice of the French -Bataclan Generation- - those most acutely conscious of the terrorist attacks in the mid-2010s-- grappling with issues of memory or post-memory, trauma, and survivors- dilemmas. Finkelstein cuts across national and cultural contexts, from French to Argentinian and North American. This novel situates contemporary youth in a violence-saturated present with which they are all too familiar, yet from which many of them feel alienated in a plurality of difficult-to-define ways. Finkelstein touches on the challenge facing her generation: to understand their own lives as uniquely meaningful in the face of unending mass suffering. ?Survive ?is concerned with the work of grieving for strangers - a grief which does not begin or end, but is rather a structural part of one-s being in the world. For Finkelstein, it is essential -[t]o abide. Deep inside what is dying,
