Gratitude

Author's name: Delphine de Vigan

Do we have time to say thank you before it's too late? And is gratitude merely a courtesy, or is it a hidden acknowledgment of an unpaid debt?
Gratitude is a novel that takes us deep into memory, into the fragile space between life and death, between presence and absence.
In a nursing home, seventy-year-old Mishka begins her final journey confronting both language and memory, while young Mary, who was her adopted daughter, tries to pull her from the abyss of oblivion.
A painful internal dialogue between an incomplete past, a crumbling present, and a cloudy, rainless future.
Young speech therapist Jerome appears calmly professional, but he soon becomes a witness to something deeper than the loss of speech: the loss of meaning.
In this novel, Delphine de Vigan paints a scene that is both subdued and vivid, in which words slip away, love takes the form of care, and gratitude transforms into resistance.
A novel about an endless childhood, about an old age that reveals everything, and about the final desire to be thanked properly.