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Violette's co-workers are a colorful bunch, and we read about clumsy Gaston falling into an open grave; Elvis singing his namesake's songs; handsome Father Duras inspiring ladies to come to church; reliable Nono helping out when Violette is away; the undertakers fretting when business is bad; and more. Violette also talks about people buried in the cemetery, in whose lives she takes an interest. Violette also likes the people she works with: the gravediggers/caretakers - Nono; Gaston; and Elvis; the undertakers - Pierre, Paul and Jacques Lucchini; and the priest - Father Cedric Duras. These colleagues frequently drop into Violette's house, for a cup of coffee and a chat.

It is a beautifully written, often moving but never depressing account of her childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, an account of how instead of following the path to becoming a professional painter she took to writing. Along the way she makes some astute observations about life, particularly for people with a physical disability. Some still-water plants can alter their position in the water column at different seasons. One notable example is Water soldier which rests as a rootless rosette on the bottom of the water body but slowly floats to the surface in late Spring so that its inflorescence can emerge into the air. While it is ascending through the water column it produces roots and vegetative daughter plants by means of rhizomes. When flowering is complete, the plant descends through the water column and the roots atrophy. Violette Toussaint was a cemetery caretaker in a small town in France: Bourgogne- Brancion-en-Chaplin cemetery. She had worked there for more than twenty years.. Violette and her husband Philippe experience a tragedy that adds a mystery element to the story, and we start to see more into his character and motivations. He is pretty unlikable with his cheating and lazy ways, but he becomes a character to sympathize with after the tragedy. Un romanzo che emoziona perché la vita è protagonista assoluta, a maggior ragione nel luogo dove si celebra il lutto. L’amore è protagonista assoluto. Perché, qualunque forma assuma, vivere senza non è possibile, non è umano.Early morning daily gatherings, before the cemetery opened, provided an opportunity for Violette and her colleagues, her true friends, to share their experiences. How about the time Nono warned Gaston that the soil was crumbly this season, but Gaston tumbled into a grave face down. Elvis started singing...Face down on the street, in the ghetto, in the ghetto. Violette exclaims, "Sometimes, I feel as if I'm living with the Marx Brothers".

Many flowers thrive in ponds, lakes, streams, or other bodies of water. If you have a garden pool, fishpond, or other water feature, flowers growing in water can enhance your garden’s aquatic landscape. You must learn to be generous with your absence to those who haven’t understood the importance of your presence. At times, it feels like the author has crammed a lot of character detail into the book. As a result, the story feels disjointed at places. It takes a while to piece together all the information provided by the author. QUOTES By then Violette works as a cemetery keeper and the cemetery is her home, the people there, dead and alive, her family. The present day part of the story takes place when Violette is about 50 and she is happy, in a way one can be happy despite a hollow place in one's heart that will never be filled. In some ways she is on hold until the day she dies. She's been left behind in more ways than one.

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Perrin also uses a diary of Irene, a deceased woman who writes about her experiences with Violette. Thus, we are provided another’s POV of Violette and how she carried on. There are other characters who provide their POV’s to the pivotable events of Violette’s life. Not all the characters are cruel. Sasha, the previous cemetery caretaker, guides Violette and provides Violette with sage wisdom at critical times in her life. a b Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Sand-Jensen, Kaj (May 1998). "Light attenuation and photosynthesis of aquatic plant communities". Limnology and Oceanography. 43 (3): 396–407. Bibcode: 1998LimOc..43..396K. doi: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.3.0396. ISSN 0024-3590. S2CID 85700950. In 1997, Violette and Philippe Toussaint arrived in Bourgogne to become the cemetery keepers at Brancion-en-Chalon Cemetery. "When it came to laziness, I'd won the lottery with [Philippe]". Violette was the sole cemetery keeper after Philippe became a police footnote, a "disappearance of concern". Violette never switched on the light in her place if someone came to visit.....but as soon as they would leave, (walk out the door), she replaced them with light, ... Chambers, Patricia A. (September 1987). "Light and Nutrients in the Control of Aquatic Plant Community Structure. II. In Situ Observations". The Journal of Ecology. 75 (3): 621–628. doi: 10.2307/2260194. JSTOR 2260194.

The themes of love and death merge most clearly in the little garden behind the caretaker's house. Violette's never gardened, knows nothing about it. Vivid and memorable are the scenes in which the man giving up the caretaker's job, who planted and loves the garden, gently instructs her, and when she's at work in the garden. She doesn't have a formal education so learning to grow plants is a source of pride and joy for her, as are the fruit of her labors and the vegetables, trees and flowers. An emergent plant is one which grows in water but pierces the surface so that it is partially exposed to air. Collectively, such plants are emergent vegetation. Cabomba Aquatica is a popular type of water plant with stems that usually reach the surface during flower productionSarkar, Purbasha; Bosneaga, Elena; Auer, Manfred (2009-09-01). "Plant cell walls throughout evolution: towards a molecular understanding of their design principles". Journal of Experimental Botany. 60 (13): 3615–3635. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erp245. ISSN 0022-0957. PMID 19687127. Archived from the original on 2020-06-06 . Retrieved 2020-06-06. Some species of plants such as Ranunculus aquatilis have two different leaf forms with finely dissected leaves that are fully submerged and entire leaves on the surface of the water. Swearingen, Jil M. (7 July 2009). "PCA Alien Plant Working Group – Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)". National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011 . Retrieved 24 September 2011. We also learn about Violette's overbearing mother-in-law, who raises her son to be a selfish narcissist; a b c d e Pedersen, Ole; Colmer, Timothy David; Sand-Jensen, Kaj (2013). "Underwater Photosynthesis of Submerged Plants – Recent Advances and Methods". Frontiers in Plant Science. 4: 140. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00140. ISSN 1664-462X. PMC 3659369. PMID 23734154.