Gratitude

Author: Dolphine du Vigan Category: Story and Novel Publisher: Daret Publishing House Publication Date: 2025 Cover Design: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Summary of the Novel: Do we have time to say "thank you" before it's too late? And is gratitude just a courtesy? Or is it a hidden acknowledgment of a debt that can never be paid? "Gratitude" is a novel that takes us into the depths of memory, into the fragile space between life and dying, and between presence and absence. In a nursing home, Michka, the seventy-year-old woman, begins her last journey confronting language and memory together, while Marie, the young woman who was her chosen daughter, tries to pull her from the abyss of forgetfulness. A painful internal dialogue between an incomplete past, a disintegrating present, and a cloudy future without rain. The young speech therapist, Jerome, appears with his calm professionalism, but he quickly becomes a witness to something deeper than loss of speech: loss of meaning. Dolphine du Vigan in this novel paints a faint yet vivid scene, where words slip away, love takes the form of care, and gratitude turns into resistance. A novel about an endless childhood, about old age that exposes everything, and about the last desire to say: thank you… as it should be.