Civilisation Française

By Mary Fleming

Book Overview

When recent college graduate Lily Owens enrolls in the Civilisation Fran?aise course at the Sorbonne in 1982, she hopes to put a difficult childhood behind her and to find direction for her future. She moves into a mansion on the place des Vosges where her job is to help the housekeeper, Germaine, care for the elderly, half-blind Amenia Quinon, another ex-pat American. The three women live alone in this old house of silence and secrets, mostly revolving in their own worlds. When Lily extends an invitation to a friend, all of their lives are upended. Moving, sometimes humorous and always engrossing, Civilisation Fran?aise is a powerful story about facing our past, discovering a future, and the meaning of home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956474501
• ISBN13: 9781956474503
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Heliotrope Books LLC
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"