The Lollipop Shoes (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Yanne Charbonneau: a chocolatier in Mortmartre, Paris.
• Annie: eldest daughter of Yanne. Befriended by Zozie
• Roux: a gypsy. Vien's old lover
• Rosette: Yanne's younger daughter. Aged four, developmentally delayed.
• Thierry Le Tresset: Yanne's boyfriend and landlord. Rich and full of himself.
• Zozie de L'Alba: Yanne's store helper. She is a witch and an expert at stealing identites.
• Alice: A local and frequent customer. Suffers from an eating disorder and is very quiet.
• Jean-loup Rimbault: Good friend to Annie. Enjoys taking photographs in the cemetery.
• Laurent Pinson: A restaurant owner in the area
• Madame Poussin: A regular at the chocolate shop.
• Jean-louis: Local artisan and friend
• Suzanne: A girl from Annie's school. A "fair-weather friend" who often betrays her.
• Madame Luzeron: Add a description of this character.
• Paupaul: A local artisan and friend
• Sandrine: A girl from Annie's school
• Mathurin
• Armande Voizin: was a neighbor in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. Dead.
• Richard
• Scott Mckenzie: A former boyfriend.
• Jeanne Moreau
• Claude: A classmate
• Ehecatl
• Mathilde: A classmate
• Françoise Lavery: A teacher
• Sarah
• Yanne Charbonneau: A chocolatier in a small frech town, taking said name in order to escape the past.
• Nico: A frequent customer, an overweight young man with a love of macaroons

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• “I remember being like that once. I remember that defiance. But motherhood changes everything. Motherhood makes cowards of us all. Cowards,liars—and sometimes worse.”

  Yanne Charbonneau

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• To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man, or simply those small everyday things that somehow manage to hurt us most: the look of impatience, the angry word, the missed bedtime story, the forgotten kiss, the terrible moment when a mother ceases to be the center of her daughter’s world and becomes just another satellite orbiting some less significant sun.

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• Wind was important to the Aztecs; more so than rain, even more important than the sun. Because wind means change; and without change, the world will die.”

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• Life is extraordinary. We are extraordinary. To embrace the extraordinary is to celebrate life.

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• But a name is never just a name. To name a thing is to give it power, to invest it with an emotional significance

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• Two winds, if you like, blowing in opposite directions. One wind takes you to what you want. The other one drives you from what you fear. And people like us have to make a choice. To ride the wind, or to let it ride you.”

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• Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

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• There’s an old story my mother used to tell, about a boy who sold his shadow to a peddler on the road in exchange for the gift of eternal life.

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• Too much ballast slows you down—but too little and I could blow away like a dandelion seed, losing myself forever on the wind.

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• “There’s no such thing as magic,” I said. “Then call it something else.” She shrugged. “Call it attitude, if you like. Call it charisma, or chutzpah, or glamour, or charm. Because basically it’s just about standing straight, looking people in the eye, shooting them a killer smile, and saying, fuck off, I’m fabulous.”

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• Show me a mother, and I’ll show you a liar. We tell them how the world should be: that there are no such things as monsters or ghosts; that if you do good, then people will do good to you; that Mother will always be there to protect you. Of course we never call them lies—we mean so well, it’s all for the best—but that’s what they are, nevertheless.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Paris
• Butte
• Montmartre
• Hurakan
• London
• Place Du Tertre
• Rue De La Croix
• St. Michael
• Lansquenet
• New York
• Mexico City

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Chocolate: Describe this theme.

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Preceded by Chocolat, and followed by Peaches for Monsieur le Curé.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Joanne Harris (Author)

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• Dewey: 823.914

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Mild language, sexuality

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Mothers & Children
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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