Fresh Water for Flowers
Perrin, Valérie, 1961 -
Fresh Water for Flowers / Valérie Perrin - New York : Europa Editions , 2020 - 483 p. ; 22 cm
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.
English
9781609456764
Women --France--Fiction
Cemeteries--Fiction
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction
Interpersonal relations --Fiction
Friendship--Fiction
Burgundy (France) --Fiction
Domestic fiction
FIC PER
Fresh Water for Flowers / Valérie Perrin - New York : Europa Editions , 2020 - 483 p. ; 22 cm
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.
English
9781609456764
Women --France--Fiction
Cemeteries--Fiction
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction
Interpersonal relations --Fiction
Friendship--Fiction
Burgundy (France) --Fiction
Domestic fiction
FIC PER
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