First published 2001
Clara Holly finds herself caught between two worlds in the City of Light. An American expatriate writer, she has built a life in Paris that feels both familiar and foreign. When her French lover Antoine begins pressuring her toward marriage, Clara must confront what she truly wants from love and from France itself. Her comfortable routine of café visits and literary salons becomes complicated by family obligations pulling her back to America and the realization that her romantic vision of Parisian life may be more fantasy than reality. As Clara weighs her choices, she discovers that reinventing yourself in a new country requires more than just changing your address. The decision she faces will determine not just where she lives, but who she becomes.
Genres: contemporary, adult-fiction, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, reinvention
Setting: America, France, Paris
Period: 21st-century
120 pages · Paperback · Arena Editions