Sadi's Dragons

A middle-grade novel about Sadi, an unhoused eleven-year-old girl, and Marguerite, an old woman losing her memory, and the sparks that fly when their lives collide. The story opens on eleven-year-old Sadi, hungry and anxious as she waits for her mother, Fleur, to return to their tent on the riverbank. Not far away, an old woman, Marguerite, an artist struggling with memory loss, throws the subject of an attempted still life, a fruit bowl, into her yard, which Sadi finds and steals.
Marguerite, frustrated at her attempts to paint, keeps throwing things into her yard and Sadi keeps taking them, until Sadi returns one of the items - a big canvas - but not before painting a dragon on it. Sadi is recovering from an acquired brain injury and struggling with memories of the boating accident in which her brother and father died. Marguerite can't remember her dog's name .