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    Zazoo: A Novel
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    Zazoo: A Novel
    Audiobook8 hours

    Zazoo: A Novel

    Written by Richard Mosher

    Narrated by Joanna Wyatt

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    About this audiobook

    Zazoo is Vietnamese by birth but feels entirely French. She has lived with her adoptive Grand-Pierre in France in an old stone mill between the river and the canal since she was two, sharing poetry, adventures, and the predictable rhythms of the seasons. Then one misty October morning, a young man on a bicycle rides into Zazoo's small village and asks a question from which many stories begin to unfold. A love story within a love story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 23, 2002
    ISBN9780807208410
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    • 5/5
      Multilayered story set in France with flashbacks to World War II. Teen book. LH
    • 5/5
      This is my pick for YA historical fiction. I was so moved by this book. This girl's love for her adopted grandfather really impacted me as she pressed him to reveal his painful and guilt-filled past. I love when a book has such a strong female character, although I think this book would be enjoyed by both boys and girls. The author was able to reveal Zazoo's incredible spirit.
    • 4/5
      Although I appreciated the atmosphere of this story, the description of the countryside and the coming-of-age of the sweet young protagonist, one major part was never satisfactorily explained in my opinion. Zazoo was adopted from Vietnam by an elderly French man who was a friend of her family. I understand that quite a few orphans were adopted abroad in the wake of the Vietnam War, but it seems unlikely to me that Zazoo's Grand-Pierre would have been considered a good candidate for an adoptive parent, seeing as how he was single and old. (In fact, by the time the story began, Grand-Pierre was beginning to slide into dementia.) Even if he was a family friend, I still think he would have had difficulties adopting her.This may be a minor issue with many readers, and indeed it's not really a part of the plot, but it was something that bothered me the entire time while I read the book.