On a beautiful Sunday day, during a gathering of close relatives in the garden, the housewife—“an otherworldly airborne creature who flew off the pages of a poetry book,” Baby Dong—puts arsenic into her husband François’s coffee. On the pages of the book, the motives that pushed this gentle woman to commit the crime are revealed. The novel “The Truth about Baby Dong” belongs to works the author called “difficult.” Their plots are devoted to the most complex and tragic situations and deal with crimes against the person; they show numerous social, moral, and psychological conditions that give rise to a conflict situation, complex interweavings of objective and subjective circumstances leading to the commission of a crime.