Five Quarters Of The Orange
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.”
When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen—the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Framboise hopes for a new beginning, but she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother.
With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother’s dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet, as she studies the scrapbook—searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother’s sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor—she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle’s cryptic scribbles. Within the journal’s tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old.
Rich and dark, Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel of mothers and daughters, of the past and the present, of resisting and succumbing.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.”
When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen—the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Framboise hopes for a new beginning, but she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother.
With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother’s dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet, as she studies the scrapbook—searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother’s sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor—she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle’s cryptic scribbles. Within the journal’s tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old.
Rich and dark, Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel of mothers and daughters, of the past and the present, of resisting and succumbing.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. Mylar cover included.
“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.”
When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen—the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Framboise hopes for a new beginning, but she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother.
With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother’s dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet, as she studies the scrapbook—searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother’s sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor—she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle’s cryptic scribbles. Within the journal’s tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old.
Rich and dark, Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel of mothers and daughters, of the past and the present, of resisting and succumbing.
ISBN 0-06-019813—3
Joanne Harris
2001