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The more the merrier, the more we love each other
by Jacky Durand, published on April 6, 2022 by Éditions Stock.
His favorite quote:
We would have shown up like a flower at the hospital.
Two guys including an ex-con with a baby that fell from the sky.
Do you know where we would have ended up at night?
At the counts.
Why this book?
Because it is a book that is good first of all.
Two men that life has dented will find a taste for life again thanks to a child.
Add to that an eclectic tribe made up of a goatherd mechanic who loves beautiful cars, an ecological and anarchist psychiatrist, an Indian rescued from the psychiatric hospital, all united in the most formidable of communities, that of solidarity and mutual aid.
And you will get an explosive and deeply human cocktail.
Because it's a book that recounts individual trajectories that are not always classic.
Jacky Durand's style combines humor, tenderness and action and it is not to displease us, this improvised tribe in the adoptive family, has good surprises in store for the reader.
This child "fallen from the sky" will be a gift for all and raises the question of the very identity of a family.
Because we are not going to shy away from the pleasure of reading a real and good feel good: exit the rose water romances sewn with white thread, Jacky Durand offers us a slice of life as rich as a cream cake provided that we have the appetite and enough greed to devour it to the fullest!
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Two loners living in a forest, far from the world, find a cradle with a child inside abandoned on a highway rest area.
They decide to grade the child, and it is the beginning of a sacred human adventure.
Characters.
Moïse the foundling, the adoptive fathers: Joseph former business lawyer and Roger ex-con, Julie Roger's daughter and her friend Karim, the extended family: Karl Marx psychiatrist and the Indian, Gandelin mechanic and goatherd, Muguette the lover, The Boiteux in search of revenge, the Dog.
Places.
A house in the forest.
The time.
Current.
The author.
Jacky Durand writes culinary chronicles in
Liberation
and for France Culture.
Her first novel
The Recipes of Life
was a great success.
This book was
devoured with great pleasure, like a festive meal served with good wines.
This book gives us confidence and hope in the Human, with a capital H because each story is inscribed in capital.
A more than successful book!
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