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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

What a delightful book!  It absconds with your heart and leaves you very sad…and happy, all rolled into one.  I guess the word for it would be bittersweet. A precocious, suicidal twelve-year old (Paloma Josse) and a prickly, hiding-her-smarts concierge (Madame Michel) live in the same apartment building.  They meet, but only toward the end […]

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