Juliette: Or, the Ghosts Return in the Spring (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770466647)

A vibrant tableau of small-town life as seen through the eyes of a woman returning home from Paris.

Juliette boards a train from Paris and comes back to her hometown hoping for a low-key visit with family and old friends. What she finds is anything but. Her sister, a caregiver and mother of two, is carrying on an elaborate affair with a man from a costume shop. Her parents, separated, are now estranged. Father is sure he's developing Alzheimer's, though it's more likely that he's simply getting old. Mother, on the other hand, revels in the second act of her life as a free woman, an artist with a show at their local gallery to prove it. Slowly, Juliette finds herself entangled with the unlikely Georges, a dyspeptic alcoholic who is stuck in his life. These divergent paths inevitably cross against a gloriously painted backdrop of eccentric small-town living.

Camille Jourdy's beautiful watercolor pages provide an unfeigned mileu for the subtle dramedy at hand in Juliette. All too real human emotions, bittersweet and relatable in their rawness, come together to form a poetic realism.

Author: Camille Jourdy
ISBN-10: 1770466649
ISBN-13: 9781770466647
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.70h x 7.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2023 pg. 51
Publishers Weekly 06/26/2023
Shelf Awareness 07/21/2023