nomadreader

The backstory: It's Paris in July ! If I can't be in Paris (perhaps my all-time favorite city) this July, at least I can read about it. The basics: French Lessons follows three Americans on one day with their French tutors. The three stories intersect tangentially. My thoughts: In some ways, French Lessons felt more like stories than a novel. It opens with the three Parisian tutors having coffee. From there, the action is quite segmented. We first meet Josie, a young French teacher and aspiring playwright who has traveled to Paris alone. Her story is told as a mix of flashbacks of her backstory and her current adventure. I loved her story, and I was sad when it ended. Next we meet Riley, an American mom with two young children who now lives in Paris but has not mastered the language at all. Riley's story was more escapist but still intriguing and somewhat dark. Finally, we meet Jeremy, who has traveled with his wife to Paris for their anniversary, but she is busy w...