Don't forget the flowers

Remembering the good times...

What is she doing there, all alone on her swing? When Izumi, as every New Year, visits his mother, he finds her disoriented in the middle of the nearby park...

Busy with his work and his unborn child, the young man doesn't notice at first. Before realizing the obvious: Yuriko, who raised him alone, is slowly losing her memory...

Doctors confirm she has Alzheimer's. From then on, all the things Izumi had forgotten come back to him from the past – the good things that he will now have to remember for two...

This book is part of the French literature selection for the 2023 Grand Prix des électeurs.