Status Updates From Les enfants du nouveau monde

Is it really happiness that matters?

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"is waiting not the same as killing everything inside yourself, with patience and somnolence? And what about me? What have I done until now? What did I do during three years of marriage, of happiness? What am I doing now with my solitude?
Nothing, nothing... and yet, others struggle, others die, others..."

“That's how a step traced outside the shadows can allow a glimpse at the route and at the path to the goal marked in stone; but the light failed to dawn in the same burst for the two of them.”

War has left the front lines and entered the (multi-family) household. Prose is best described as a bit rugged (not a complaint). Each chapter has introduced a new pov and also continued the previous story thread (I believe the entire novel is set during one day).