SuitabookDO pour Dolorès
Carole Fréchette
- Reading
- Read alongside the young person rather than rushing to explain the disappearance. Pause after the friendship and after the search begins, inviting reactions to admiration, difference, uncertainty and loss.
- Themes
- Friendship and self-discovery: Véro, described as quiet and conventional, is fascinated by Dolorès and discovers difference and joy through their close summer friendship. The book presents this favourably.
- Absence, searching and grief: Dolorès is absent when the friends plan to travel; Véro, inconsolable and needing an explanation, believes she recognises Dolorès and searches through the city. The book does not clearly resolve its stance on this.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to grief and loss.