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Baguette et Chocolat: Reconsidering Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead as Trauma Literature

Jan 13, 2025

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by

Heidi Darroch

in Louise Penny

This morning I am breakfasting on the traditional after-school snack of the French schoolchild: squares of chocolate tucked in to a crispy baguette so that they will melt into the hot bread. A kind of DIY chocolate spread. Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead is one of her more complex novels, following multiple story and time-lines.…