Fresh water for flowers
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Serle, Hildegarde, translator.
Published
New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2020.
Physical Desc
476 pages ; 22 cm
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction | FIC | On Hold Shelf |
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Published
New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2020.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues--gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest--visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local police chief--who insists on scattering the ashes of his recently deceased mother on the gravesite of a complete stranger. It soon becomes clear that Julien's inexplicable gesture is intertwined with Violette's own difficult past.
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