
"This extraordinary little book touched me deeply. Part graphic novel, part literary archeology, the author slowly unpacks a dusty cellar, and brings her subject to life. Even MadeIeine's recipes have risen. Who would have guessed Twitter could be so poetic."—Elizabeth Bard, author of Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes and Picnic in ProvenceA young woman moves into a Paris apartment and di...
Paperback: 285 pages
Publisher: New Vessel Press (September 12, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1939931495
ISBN-13: 978-1939931498
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 869105
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The Madeleine Project by Clara Beaudoux explores the life of Madeleine through the belongings she left behind in her Paris storage unit. The author moves into the apartment and when she finds that the cellar is padlocked and full of belongings, she c...
torage room filled with the belongings of the previous owner, a certain Madeleine who died in her late nineties, and whose treasured possessions nobody seems to want. In an audacious act of journalism driven by personal curiosity and humane tenderness, Clara Beaudoux embarks on The Madeleine Project, documenting what she finds on Twitter with text and photographs, introducing the world to an unsung twentieth-century figure. Along the way, she uncovers a Parisian life indelibly marked by European history. This is a graphic novel for the Twitter age, a true story that encapsulates one woman's attempt to live a life of love and meaning together with a contemporary quest to prevent that existence from slipping into oblivion. Through it all, The Madeleine Project movingly chronicles, and allows us to reconstruct, intimate memories of a bygone era.Clara Beaudoux is a Paris-based journalist for the France Info news network. The Madeleine Project has been wildly popular in France. You can follow her on Twitter at @Clarabdx.Reading group guide to The Madeleine Project is available from New Vessel Press.