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Roland has the perfect vacation planned for Fabienne - everything is
organized, booked, and paid for in advance, with the entire itinerary recorded
in a notebook. It's going to be a wonderful week where they can discuss
their future together.
But before they can even get their luggage
to their rental, Roland is decapitated in a freak accident. And Fabienne,
stunned and alone, has no idea how to process it. So in her daze of denial, she
decides to stay and follow the itinerary as planned, as if the tragedy never
happened.
Ghost-like, she wanders the tourist-filled streets, a
passive spectator to the joys of others' lives. Along the way, she meets
Paco, a local vendor with some eccentric views on life and death. Being rather
private normally, it isn't hard for her to lie about the companion that
never seems to be there at that very moment, but Paco soon puts the pieces
together. His minor fascination with bizarre deaths has him all too familiar
with the tale of the recently decapitated tourist. And he realizes this woman
needs a friend right now more than anything else. So they spend a platonic week
off and on, neither of them talking about what happened.
And that
seems to be precisely what she needs to process everything.
A
moving and mesmerizing look at life, death, and the many different ways we cope
with each, written by celebrated author Lewis Trondheim and illustrated by
Hubert Chevillard.
