Ce roman est le 3e de la série "A Dixie Hemingway Mystery", qui raconte les aventures d'une gardienne d'animaux de compagnie de la Floride. L'intrigue est, comme toujours, particulièrement originale et imprévisible; pourtant, on y croit. le texte est bien ficelé, et les réflexions du personnage central sont à la fois drôles et intelligentes. Bref, une lecture qui est légère sans être superficielle.
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I suppose the conflict is the energy that keeps the universe together, but couldn't it be conflict of man against hunger, man against disease, man against ignorance, man against despair, instead of man against man?
It wasn't a matter of forgiveness, I just decided to stop reliving it every day. Every time I remembered it, I felt the same pain and anger all over again. So I let it go. It's done, over, in the past. If I go around resenting it, I keep it in the present.
That's the neat thing about kids. They don't really care about their pets' official names, and they don't think it's weird that a grown woman would want to hold a bit of fluffy kitten just for the pure pleasure of it.
Adults try to protect children from the realities of death, even though children usually handle it as if it were no more mysterious than any of the other realities they're learning about.
There's something about laying things out so they all face the same way or lining them up in alphabetical order that makes super-organized people feel better.