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Clover's name ... was there any discussion of it (why her parents chose it)? It's just pretty unusual, and I'll admit, it kept me from connecting with her (it just always felt odd). I saw in the dedication the author notes "the women of Cloverlea" ... I'm guessing that was the inspiration?
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Kelly
Not sure, as far as why her parents chose it. The only reference to her name I recall was when she met Hugo and he said, "Clover, like in the Etta James song [At Last], '...my heart was wrapped up in clover'?" (She doesn't really answer.) Clover had mentioned (early on in the book) that when she and Leo used to walk around Harlem when she was little, he would show her where all the Jazz clubs and Speakeasy's were, so maybe her parents were jazz fans too, since Leo and, presumably, her grandfather were? That's a stretch though.
I think it's more likely that it's just the name author Mikki Brammer chose because she had a beloved great aunt named Clover. From an interview: "While writing my debut novel The Collected Regrets of Clover (the heroine of which is named after my fabulous great aunt), I did a lot of research into the most common regrets that people had when they were dying." Brammer is from Australia, so it may be a more common name there (Cloverlea is a town in Australia and the Lord Mayor of Sydney is a woman named Clover.) The Author also mentioned in a YouTube interview that she used some of the names of her great aunt Clover's sisters for other characters in the book, too - Bessie for one.
I think it's more likely that it's just the name author Mikki Brammer chose because she had a beloved great aunt named Clover. From an interview: "While writing my debut novel The Collected Regrets of Clover (the heroine of which is named after my fabulous great aunt), I did a lot of research into the most common regrets that people had when they were dying." Brammer is from Australia, so it may be a more common name there (Cloverlea is a town in Australia and the Lord Mayor of Sydney is a woman named Clover.) The Author also mentioned in a YouTube interview that she used some of the names of her great aunt Clover's sisters for other characters in the book, too - Bessie for one.
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