International bestselling author of FRESH WATER FOR FLOWERS and THREE, Valérie Perrin, will join us virtually for a brunch event!! Perrin will be joined in conversation by St. Petersburg’s Poet Laureate, Gloria Muñoz.

Readers have two options for attendance. Tombolo will host an in-person watch party complete with mimosas and pastries at the bookstore. But if you can’t make it in person, you are welcome to join us virtually on Zoom! 

***When purchasing your tickets, please be mindful of which option you choose. Both tickets are the same price, but one is indicated as “In-person attendance” for folks participating in the watch party at the bookstore and the other is indicated as “Virtual attendance” for folks who want a link to the Zoom Webinar.

If you purchase either ticket and decide later that you would prefer the other option, please send us an email at frontdesk@tombolobooks.com so that we can make sure you are marked correctly on our RSVP lost.***

Praise for Three: 

“Three transplants you wholly onto its pages, leaving you between two drags of air and twice as many enigmas. This is a remarkable feat, as the plot swaggers up and down its timeline frantically, conveying a sense of derailment that’s as thematic as it is subliminal.”

—Delphic Reviews

“Perrin’s prose is engrossing, transforming ordinary situations into delectable treats… Startling and affecting, Three is a novel about the refuge found in true friends, and about the mercy of self-acceptance.”—ForeWord Reviews (Starred Review)

Praise for Fresh Water for Flowers: 

“A beautiful, intensely atmospheric bittersweet dream of a book.”

—Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library

“Readers will be swept away by the poetic gentleness of the narration, by the generous gaze that the two protagonists cast over human affairs, by the desire for peace felt by both Julian and Violette.”

—La Croix (France)

Valérie Perrin was born in 1967 in Remiremont, in the Vosges Mountains, France. She grew up in Burgundy and settled in Paris in 1986. Her novel The Forgotten Sunday (2015) won the Booksellers Choice Award, and the paperback edition has been long-selling best-seller since publication. Her English-language debut, Fresh Water for Flowers (Europa, 2020) won the Maison de la Presse Prize, the Paperback Readers Prize, and was named a 2020 ABA Indies Introduce and Indie Next List title. It has been translated into over thirty languages. Figaro Littéraire named Perrin one of the ten bestselling authors in France in 2019. In Italy, Fresh Water for Flowers was a top ten best-selling novel of 2020 and dubbed the “lockdown novel of the year,” and Three was 2021’s best-selling book in all categories. Perrin now lives in Normandy.