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The Little Paris Bookshop
Contemporary fiction
The Little Paris Bookshop
Jean Perdu operates a floating bookshop on the Seine, prescribing novels for customers' emotional injuries while refusing to address his own long grief. Reading a letter left unopened for twenty years finally forces him to confront what happened to the woman he loved. He casts off with the Literary Apothecary and travels through France accompanied by a blocked novelist and other companions who need their own forms of repair. Bittersweet and atmospheric, this novel suits readers who enjoy Paris, river journeys, books as medicine, French food, and stories that treat mourning as a destination one must travel through rather than a room to keep permanently locked.
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Death, terminal illness and cancer; prolonged grief; infidelity/adultery; sexual content; suicidal thoughts and suicide-attempt references; pregnancy; alcohol and drug-use references.
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