Absent from All Bouquets
Original title: L’absente de tous bouquets
Synopsis
The new novel by one of the major figures of contemporary Canadian literature in which the narrative energy of an unusual voice leads the reader into a space where literature is as much the poison as it is the antidote.
You have never cultivated your own garden. With these words a girl begins a long letter to her missing mother. While the sentence might sound like an accusation, it is rather an invitation to converse in a literary garden where, despite the pain and sorrow, roses, peonies and hyacinths continue to bloom.
This story is an homage to flowers, to rebirth, a call to better times in which the world can blossom again.