![]() ![]() ![]() Then Franck has her help out at the restaurant on New Year’s Eve: She’s a sensation. Nor is he happy about the arrival of Camille: “She’s skinny, stupid, pretentious, and as weird as my roommate.” The thaw begins with their shared enjoyment of a Marvin Gaye album. The frail old lady has just been moved into a retirement home, which she hates, and Franck finds his weekly visits there torture. Franck Lestafier is a talented if inarticulate saucier at a top-of-the-line restaurant he cares only for his motorbike and his grandmother Paulette, who raised him. Philibert already has one roommate, who uses the place just to bed his many girlfriends. The timid, gangly, stammering Philibert is no better at coping with life than Camille (he sells postcards), but the kind-hearted aristocrat recognizes a damsel in distress and installs her in his magnificent apartment, which he’s guarding until an inheritance battle is resolved. The skeletal 26-year-old is weighed down by life’s miseries once a talented artist, she now cleans offices after hours. Three oddballs form an alternative family in Paris its warm heart and youthful vibe have made Gavalda’s novel, originally published in France in 2004, a bestseller in that country and elsewhere.Ĭamille Fauque has hit rock-bottom, living on the streets, when a friend finds her shelter: a tiny maid’s room in a grand old building in a ritzy Paris neighborhood. ![]()
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