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For Charlotte Sanders, a precocious and privileged fifteen-year-old American girl growing up in Paris in the late 1970s, life has a dreamy quality. Her father, a lawyer and quiet intellectual, spends evenings reading Balzac in his study and listening to opera. Her sister is a star rider at the equestrian club. And her mother Astrid is charming, gor- geous, and charismatic. But Charlotteâs peaceful existence is turned upside down when Astrid has an affair with a Polish Communist-resister and the family is shattered. Charlotte and her mother move to New York, where reduced circumstances and Astridâs unwillingness to face reality force Charlotte to quickly grow up. Charlotte observes her motherâs stylish ego- centricity with both disdain and awe as she lives through her own unhappy love affair and finally confronts the emotional scars left by her parentsâ divorce.
Featuring pitch-perfect descriptions of Parisian life, this enchanting story is warm, witty, and smart. It is an endear- ing portrayal of the challenges of adolescence and an honest account of one girlâs discovery that where we come from makes us who we are.
About: A compelling and poignant coming-of-age story about a sharply observant American girlâs young adulthood in Paris and New York set against the backdrop of Europeâs most turbulent decadeâfor readers of Curtis Sittenfeld, Diane Johnson, and Lorrie Moore.
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