Showing Dreaming in French: A Novel by Megan McAndrew

Paperback. Pub Date: December 2010 Pages: 314 Publisher: Scribner A Compelling and poignant coming-of-AGE story about a sharply observant girl's young. American adulthood in Paris and New York SET Against the Backdrop of Europe's MOST turbulent decade-for Readers of Curtis Sittenfeld. Diane Johnson. and Lorrie Moore.For Charlotte Sanders. a precocious and privileged fifteen-year-old American girl growing up in Paris in the late 1970s. life has a dreamy quality. Her father. a lawyer and quiet intellectual. spends evenings reading Balzac in his study and listening to opera. Her sister is a star rider at the equestrian club. And her mother Astrid is charming. gor-geous. and charismatic. But Charlotte's peaceful existence is turned upside down when Astrid has an affair with a Polish Communist-resister and the family is shattered. Charlotte and her mother move to New York. where ...