Zazoo

More a 4.5. This is one of my favorites and I just needed to reread it. Zazoo is a Vietnamese girl who was adopted by GrandPierre as an infant and taken to his native France. Grand-Pierre is 78 and losing his mind. This, along with a mysterious but nice boy she meets along their canal, propels the s......more

Added and began listening on June 21, 2018. (Audio version loaned from public library.) Published June 7th 2004 by HMH Books for Young Readers (first published October 15th 2001). Narrated by: Joanna Wyatt Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins Audible Release date: 04-15-09 [URL not allowed] F......more

I first read Zazoo in high school and remember loving it. All these years later, I couldn’t remember what the plot was about but I remembered the feeling of a chilly and foggy morning on the canal in the French countryside. When I picked this up again, I was happily surprised that I felt a similarly......more

It's like Secondhand Lions, except in France, and also Hub and Walter aren't related and are stuck in an almost 50 year bitter hatred. A story about love and life and war and the awful impacts it leaves from the old men who still can't quite sleep because of what they saw or did. I am conflicted abou......more

Just a sweet story and so wonderfully written. The relationship between adoptive father who is more like a grandfather, and Vietnamese teen Zazoo was intriguing. Then how the other characters are brought in, and history is revealed is smooth and slow. I feel like finding bookclub questions for this......more