« She passed on the beautiful things
before she was no longer here,
without really telling me. »
The true story of an extraordinary mother — told by her son Samir. Twenty-three chapters already written. Every page, a truth. Every word, a tribute.
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❄ Launch price: 7.99 € — digital editionFrom Morocco to Nîmes. From 1959 to 2010. An entire life told for the first time.
She was born on 13 April 1959 in Casablanca, motherless at six months old. She walked sixteen kilometres a day with worn-out shoes to get to school. She crossed two continents, three religions, four cancers.
She took the train alone to Montpellier with her suitcase and her cancer. She chose her wigs with a smile. She wrote her letters in her own spelling and with her own dignity — and she signed them: Yours sincerely.
She died at fifty, with a smile.
There are women who are born in the storm and learn to dance in the rain before they even know how to walk. Jacqueline was one of them.
The Hymn — Jacqueline's chapter"It's snowing! It's snowing!" Jacqueline was at the window — calling to her son with pure wonder in her voice. She was twenty-three and marvelled at the snow as if it were the first time. It is the most beautiful memory of his childhood.
Chapter Six — It's snowingShe was smiling. Jacqueline had died with a smile. After Casablanca and the worn-out shoes. After four cancers and thirteen years of fighting — she was smiling. That smile, Samir will carry until his last day.
Chapter Twenty-One — The smileBorn of a Sicilian-Corsican father and a Jewish mother.
Raised in a Christian family.
Converted to Islam for love.
Died with a smile.
Three religions. One heart.