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Author Perrin, Valérie, 1961- author.

Title Fresh water for flowers : a novel / Valérie Perrin ; translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2020.
1 hold on first copy returned of 3 copies
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2019081~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Adult Fiction  F PERRIN    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction  F PERRIN    STAFF PICKS
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F PERRIN    DUE 05-13-24
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Description 476 pages ; 22 cm
Note "A novel"--Book jacket cover.
Translation of the original title: Changer l'eau des fleurs.
Summary 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.
Subject Cemeteries -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Burgundy (France) -- Fiction.
Added Author Serle, Hildegarde, translator.
ISBN 9781609456764
9781609455958 (hardcover)
1609455959 (hardcover)
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