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Simon & Schuster
March 2013
On Sale: March 5, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 1451655037
EAN: 9781451655032
Kindle: B008O58KFK
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Fiction
It’s 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Kate has
just graduated from Yale, eager to pursue her dreams as a
fledgling painter. 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; Kate’s own flamboyant
cousin; a fellow Yalie who seems to have it all figured out;
and a bande of independently wealthy young men with royal
lineage. 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. In compelling and sympathetic prose, Hilary Reyl perfectly
captures this portrait of a precocious, ambitious young
woman struggling to define herself in a vibrant world that
spirals out of her control. Lessons in French is at once a
love letter to Paris and the story of a young woman finding
herself, her moral compass, and, finally, her true family.
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