ILLEGAL USE OF NARCOTIC DRUGS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, AND THEIR ANALOGUES HARMS HEALTH; THEIR ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING IS PROHIBITED AND ENTAILS LIABILITY PROVIDED BY LAW. From her mother, Framboise inherited a cookbook album—not much, considering her brother Cassis got a farm, and her older sister Ren-Cloud a wine cellar with all its contents. But the whole point is that on the margins of the album, next to recipes for various dishes and herbal remedies, the mother wrote down her thoughts and confessions about some events of her life—in short, kept a kind of diary. And in this diary, Framboise tries to find answers to the dark mysteries of the past. "Harris created a multilayered plot sprinkled with delightful descriptions of French books and revealing the shocking effect of war on fragile family structures." — Publishers Weekly "Of her books, this is the strongest so far: sharp, with a bitterness..." — Independent