A review by lisam
The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre

4.0

I heard about this one on The Librarian Is In and tracked down a used copy immediately. It is very quiet, gently human, and a little sad. Its tone was so different from much of what I read and it was really refreshing to give myself over to another kind of storytelling. Sometimes I didn’t know if the tone came from Fabre’s stylistic choice - the whole novella is an internal monologue - or from the translation. I know some French and I think the answer is likely a bit of both.