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Reading List Expat Books About France
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Trail of Crumbs:, By Kim Sunée - Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love and the Search for Home, by Kim Sunée – Quite a story! Abandoned by her mother in a South Korean market at age three, then adopted and raised in New Orleans, Kim hadn’t even celebrated her 22nd birthday when she found herself living in France, mistress over a French millionaire’s homes in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his eight-year-old daughter. This is an intense and beautifully written memoir of a young woman’s coming of age, and a passionate tale about love, food, and travel.
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Expatriate Games, by Judith Parzych - Moving is never an easy task, especially moving to a foreign country. Expatriate Games is a book that describes the challenges and unexpected joys of adapting to a life abroad as experienced by a culture-shocked young mother as she struggles to make a life for herself, her engineer husband and their four-year-old daughter in Orsay, France. |
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Almost French, by Sarah Turnbull - Very funny account of one woman's adventures in France, mostly takes place in Paris, yet is relevant for anyone that wants an individuals account of the French and their culture. Personal yet gives a very good insight into living in the French culture. |
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French Toast, by Harriet Welty Rochefort - What happens when an American girl from Iowa moves to France and gets married to a Frenchman? Find out in French Toast a book filled with humorous antidotes that will help the reader better understand French culture. |
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French or Foe, by Polly Platt - Written by an American who has been
in the French (Parisien) corporate society for years and has given
workshops to help non-French, mostly English-speaking, people understand and get
along in the French culture. Many very very very funny, true stories
about innocent, but sometimes serious, cultural misunderstandings.
Not all of her understandings of French culture would be true in any part
of France in any socio-economic group, but much of it will hit very close
to home and be very helpful for any American in France. |
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Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik - A writer for the New Yorker.
This is a very personal, very wonderful,
book about Gopnik raising his first child, and doing other things, in Paris.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris - A comic
writer, and his humor will not appeal to all ( I have not appreciated
other things he's written) but any American who has lived in France
will not be able to contain a hooting laughter when reading about his
experiences. Neither tries to be a 'how-to' or guide book... neither
gives advice or tries to. Sometimes it's good to know that you
are not alone, and it's always good to have a good laugh. |
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