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As the Page Turns: Fresh Water For Flowers

Conversations from a Page is hosting As the Page Turns on Zoom where we will be discussing Fresh Water For Flowers by Valérie Perrin at 11:00 a.m. CST. For the most lively discussion, it is best to have Fresh Water For Flowers read prior. To help defray costs as we are putting in the time and working diligently to bring you the most thought-provoking and unique experiences, the registration fee for this event is $5. If you prefer, you can purchase a year-long event pass for $30.

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Fresh Water For Flowers

About Fresh Water For Flowers

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues share with her. Violette’s routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole—local police chief—who has come to scatter 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 complicated past.

About Valérie Perrin

Valérie Perrin was born in 1967 in Remiremont, in the Vosges Mountains, France. She grew up in Burgundy and settled in Paris in 1986. Her novel The Forgotten Sunday (2015) won the Booksellers Choice Award and the paperback edition has been long-selling best-seller since publication. Her English-language debut, Fresh Water for Flowers (Europa, 2020) won the Maison de la Presse Prize, the Paperback Readers Prize, and was named a 2020 ABA Indies Introduce and Indie Next List title. It has been translated into over thirty languages. 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. Perrin now lives in Normandy

Earlier Event: January 27
As the Page Turns: One Two Three
Later Event: March 29
As the Page Turns: Somewhere Above It All