Lessons in French
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It's 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Kate has just graduated from Yale. When she receives a job offer to work as the assistant to Lydia Schell, a famous American photographer in Paris, she immediately accepts. It's a chance not only to be at the center of it all, but also to return to France for the first time since she was a lonely nine-year-old girl, sent to the outskirts of Paris to live with cousins while her father was dying. Kate may speak fluent French, but she arrives at the Schell household in the fashionable Sixth Arrondissement both dazzled and wildly impressionable. She finds herself surrounded by a seductive cast of characters, including the bright, pretentious Schells, with whom she boards, and their assortment of famous friends. As Kate rediscovers Paris and her roots there, while trying to fit into Lydia's glamorous and complicated family, she begins to question the kindness of the people to whom she is so drawn as well as her own motives for wanting them to love her.
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If you throw Paris or France in a title, you can know that I will probably seek this book out and give it a read. And I will probably like it, no matter how badly written it is. I just like reading about Paris.
So it shouldn't be a surprise that I found this book. And it shouldn't be a surprise that I read it. Nor will it be a surprise that I liked it.
But I'll go a little farther with this book. You might like it, too. Turns out that author Reyl writes as if she has lots of actual experiences in France, which is lovely. Paris and good writing, then. Yes, you might like it. Even if you aren't wild about France.
