This book is remarkable. What a pleasure to read such a book at the end of the year, as we prepare to say goodbye to the old year and start again. A novel that is about death is really about new beginnings. This book is about starting again, and grieving, and forgiveness, and … I’m getting ahead of myself. Violette Trenet, married name Toussaint, is a caretaker in a cemetery in Bourgogne, France. The novel, translated with such eloquence by Hildgard Serle, uses the most […]