Peaches for Father Francis by Joanne Harris, 2012
A delightful thing here. I didn't know it was a sequel to the more celebrated
Chocolat but it holds up fine on it's own, any returning concepts and themes are handled in a pretty straightforward fashion.
I probably wouldn't have expected to enjoy it so much if I glanced over the details beforehand but everything I'm reading I'm going into blind, and haven't been super disappointed by anything yet. This book is flavorful and delicate in prose and plot, dealing with an overlying theme of segregation in a French slum-sub city for Muslims cut off from the adjacent and haughty Anglos.
A lot to do with religion and pastries and I had a good time.
3.5/5