{"id":2836,"date":"2021-12-08T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2021-12-08T09:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:50:53","slug":"the-elegance-of-the-hedgehog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/the-elegance-of-the-hedgehog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elegance of the Hedgehog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><em>The Elegance of the Hedgehog<br \/>\n<\/em>By Muriel Barbery<\/p>\n<p>Set in a bourgeois apartment building in the centre of Paris, <em>The Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/em> focuses on three main characters: Ren\u00e9e, Paloma, and the mysterious Mr. Ozu.<\/p>\n<p>Ren\u00e9e is the apartment building\u2019s caretaker, and outwardly displays the stereotypical characteristics that the tenants of the apartment building expect of their concierge: overweight, grouchy, and addicted to television.\u00a0 Unbeknownst to her employers, however, Ren\u00e9e is an intellectual who adores art, music, philosophy and Japanese culture.<\/p>\n<p>Paloma is a 12-year old girl whose family lives in the apartment building.\u00a0 Paloma is a genius who has decided, quite rationally, that she will end her life on her thirteenth birthday.\u00a0 Until then, she will outwardly behave like her parents, teachers, and other adults expect of a teenage girl: a good (but not outstanding) student, and an obedient (but obstinate) daughter who spends most hours at home in her room.<\/p>\n<p>Paloma and Ren\u00e9e both hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Mr. Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma&#8217;s trust and to see through Ren\u00e9e&#8217;s disguise to the secret that haunts her.\u00a0 This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Elegance of the Hedgehog<\/em> is available at WSPL in regular print format, on Cloud Library as an eaudiobook and ebook, and as a book club set.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Scheiers<br \/>\nCoordinator of Community Engagement<br \/>\nWhitchurch-Stouffville Public Library<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elegance of the Hedgehog By Muriel Barbery Set in a bourgeois apartment building in the centre of Paris, The Elegance of the Hedgehog focuses on three main characters: Ren\u00e9e, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoverstouffville.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}