This book is a delight! - Anne Korkeakivi, author of An Unexpected Guest

Like Louise Fitzhugh's classic Harriet the Spy, the story is powered by a precocious and independent loner whose observations and reports are both charming and moving. Tita is a remarkable debut. - Katharine Weber, author of Triangle and True Confections

...Witty, wry, and clever...I cannot recommend it enough! - Janet Skeslien Charles, author of Moonlight in Odessa

This book has a charm so unique and powerful, it pulls you in simply, effortlessly...I loved it. .- Nicola Keegan, author of Swimming

There’s nothing simplistic about this novel. Tita is not an exercise in blind nostalgia for a lost past. It is a rich and warm, yet open-eyed portrait of a place and time just beyond our current reach. It’s a book worth savoring. – Judith Starkson – New York Journal of Books

Tita is seven, and she wonders what’s wrong with her. She has perfect parents. She puts on plays with her friends, spies on adults, challenges her teacher, even manages to read forbidden books. She should be happy. But she dreams of a time without meals, and keeps worrying about her mother’s whereabouts, spoiling her own life for no reason at all. Is she a freak? As her beloved small town vibrates to age-old Latin rituals on the verge of slipping away, Tita finds refuge - and a liberation - in books.

Marie Houzelle grew up in the south of France, and writes inthe English language. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Pharos, Orbis, Serre-Feuilles, Van Gogh's Ear, the chapbook No Sex Last Noon, and in Best Paris Stories. "Hortense on Tuesday Night" was chosen by Narrative Magazine as one of the five top stories of 2011.

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