Post Grad Book #11

French Lessons by Ellen Sussman
Finished: I can't remember because I've been meaning to do this for probably a month
Page Count: 236
Why I read it: 
My mom read it then recommended it to me.  So I read it and I loved it.


The inside cover description:

A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.

Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world.

As they meet with their tutors—Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet; Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt; and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal—each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse Paris’s grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves.

What I thought:

It was romantic and wonderful and not too predictable and it just made me happy.  It made think of France and wish I could be there and experience France with a tutor.  It was a quick read and took me away in its descriptions and places and people.  There were just a few chapters, each describing one of the three people on his or her adventure with a French tutor.  Each chapter started with a map that showed the duo's travels through Paris during the one day of focus.  You see that all of them cross paths at some point and see the same thing just at different times.  Its wonderful and I highly recommend it.