Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Zazoo by Richard Mosher
Zazoo is the story of a young girl in France. She is a Vietnam orphan adopted by a French soldier.
Zazoo lives with her father in a gatehouse on a canal in France. Zazoo is the only point of contact between the local village and her father. She and her father live a slow but satisfying life, deeply love one another, and write fabulous poetry. As her father receds more and more from life (alzheimers?) Zazoo becomes a young woman and starts reaching out to more people. She stumbles upon another side to her father, a darker side which haunts him but which also expands her vision of the person he is. Zazoo and a friend work to patch a friendship between Zazoo's father and a villager.
Major themes: No man is an island. Sometimes we do bad things for good reasons and sometimes bad things from anger/emotional loss. Continued obsession with the past can ruin your present and future. Love is a great healer.
I recommended this to a 15 year old girl and lent it to her and she hasn't given it back. She says she passed it on to some friends.
Zazoo lives with her father in a gatehouse on a canal in France. Zazoo is the only point of contact between the local village and her father. She and her father live a slow but satisfying life, deeply love one another, and write fabulous poetry. As her father receds more and more from life (alzheimers?) Zazoo becomes a young woman and starts reaching out to more people. She stumbles upon another side to her father, a darker side which haunts him but which also expands her vision of the person he is. Zazoo and a friend work to patch a friendship between Zazoo's father and a villager.
Major themes: No man is an island. Sometimes we do bad things for good reasons and sometimes bad things from anger/emotional loss. Continued obsession with the past can ruin your present and future. Love is a great healer.
I recommended this to a 15 year old girl and lent it to her and she hasn't given it back. She says she passed it on to some friends.
# posted by JJ @ 9:07 AM 
