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There were no photos on the wall or colorful tablecloths or couches— just lots of plywood and chairs to sit on. They’re not ass-kissers, ambitious, grudge-bearers, dandies, petty, generous, jealous, scruffy, clean, awesome, funny, addicted, stingy, cheerful, crafty, violent, lovers, whiners, hypocrites, gentle, tough, feeble, nasty, liars, thieves, gamblers, strivers, idlers, believers, perverts, optimists.

She opens the gates in the morning and closes them in the evening; attends the interments and transcribes the eulogies into her journal; offers refreshments to - and chats with - the people who come to visit their loved ones; grows and sells flowers; takes care of graves when family members are away; looks after pets who arrive with their deceased owners and never leave; deals with teenagers who sneak into the cemetery at night (this is a hoot! And when evening comes, and the gates to my cemetery are closed, and the key is hanging on my bathroom door, I’m in heaven. even though a good part of the story's setting revolves around a small-town French cemetery, the overall ambiance felt peaceful to me. With Fresh Water for Flowers, Valérie Perrin has given readers a funny, moving, intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in happiness.Jedna z tych zwykłych-niezwykłych historii, które ni stąd, ni zowąd dotykają człowieka do samej głębi. You will grow up elsewhere, among the murmurs of the world, in the Mediterranean, in Sasha’s garden, in the flight of a bird, at daybreak, at nightfall, through a young girl I will meet by chance, in the foliage of a tree, in the prayer of a woman, in the tears of a man, in the light of a candle, you will be reborn later, one day, in the form of a flower or a little boy, to another mother, you will be everywhere my eyes come to rest. Figaro Littéraire named Perrin one of the ten best-selling authors in France in 2019, and in Italy, Fresh Water for Flowers was the best selling book of 2020. Violette Toussaint was a cemetery caretaker in a small town in France: Bourgogne- Brancion-en-Chaplin cemetery. Fresh Water for Flowers is a moving and lyrical portrait of one woman's quest for happiness and love.

Matt Haig describes Fresh Water for Flowers as “a beautiful, intensely atmospheric bittersweet dream of a book” and Publishers Weekly said it was “a tender and poignant exploration of love, loss, and redemption. Há segredos, vidas duplas, traições, uma personagem que não assume a sua sexualidade, uma protagonista que esconde roupas estampadas e coloridas por baixo de casacos escuros.Readers will be swept away by the poetic gentleness of the narration, by the generous gaze that the two protagonists cast over human affairs, by the desire for peace felt by both Julian and Violette. I am in awe of protagonist Violette’s endurance, her steadfast resolve in soldering on, in the face of disappointment and loss.

And when the evening come, and the gates at my cemetery are closed, and the key is hanging on my bathroom door, I’m in heaven.Her missing husband Phillipe, his miserably mean spirited mother and father, her dearest friends Celia and Sasha, one of my favorite characters, the former caretaker of the cemetery who makes her laugh. It’s like a dog that’s forever weaving around our legs, but whose presence we only notice the day it bites us.