Her debut novel, The Book of Mother, won Prix Françoise Sagan and was longlisted for International Booker Prize.
[4] Huisman has coordinated the literary series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music,[1][3] as well as managed multidisciplinary arts festivals.
[1][4] She works as an essayist and cultural journalist and has written for such publications as The New York Times, Vogue[6] and The Paris Review.
[7] Huisman's debut novel The Book of Mother was published by Éditions Gallimard in 2018[8] and tells the story of a Parisian woman's life, told partially through the eyes of her young daughter.
[1][8] It was also longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022[1] and was included in The New York Times 100 Notable Books list.