Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own? Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls.
The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.
After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.
This is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.
- Everything I Never Told You ~ by Celeste Ng, 2014, fiction, 305 pages, 8/10
- The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle ~ by Joanne Huist Smith, 2014, memoir, 224 pages
- Lost Laysen ~ by Margaret Mitchell, 1996, novella, 128 pages
- The Fifth Child ~ by Doris Lessing, 1988, fiction, 144 pages
- Plum Wine ~ by Angela Davis-Gardner, 2006, fiction, 352 pages
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