Paris Was the Place Sensual and seductive Paris Was the Place pulls you in and doesn t let you go Find your nearest chair and start reading With her poet s eye Conley has woven a vivid masterful tale of love and its c
Sensual and seductive, Paris Was the Place pulls you in and doesn t let you go Find your nearest chair and start reading With her poet s eye, Conley has woven a vivid, masterful tale of love and its costs Lily King, author of Father of the Rain When Willie Pears begins teaching at a center for immigrant girls who are all hoping for French asylum, she has no idea it w Sensual and seductive, Paris Was the Place pulls you in and doesn t let you go Find your nearest chair and start reading With her poet s eye, Conley has woven a vivid, masterful tale of love and its costs Lily King, author of Father of the Rain When Willie Pears begins teaching at a center for immigrant girls who are all hoping for French asylum, she has no idea it will change her life As she learns their stories, the lines between teaching and mothering quickly begin to blur Willie has fled to Paris to create a new family for herself by reaching out to her beloved brother, Luke, and her straight talking friend, Sara She soon falls for Macon, a charming, passionate French lawyer, and her new family circle seems complete But Gita, a young girl at the detention center, is determined to escape her circumstances, no matter the cost And just as Willie is faced with a decision that could have potentially dire consequences for both her relationship with Macon and the future of the center, Luke is taken with a serious, as yet unnamed illness, forcing Willie to reconcile with her father and examine the lengths we will go to for the people we care the most about.In Paris Was the Place, Conley has given us a beautiful portrait of on how much it matters to belong to a family, to a country, to any one place, and how this belonging can mean the difference in our survival This is a profoundly moving portrait of some of th
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Susan Conley is the author of Paris Was the Place Knopf, August 2013 , an Fall Big Books Pick for fiction, an Indie Next Pick, and an Elle Magazine Readers Prize Pick People magazine calls it a satisfying cassoulet of questions about home, comfort and love, served with a fresh perspective on a dazzling city while Booklist says that, Deftly exploring the complexities of friendship, family and commitment, Conley adroitly demonstrates her infectious passion for Paris through an extensive and intimate portrait of the inner workings concealed behind its seductive fa ade An American novelist, nonfiction writer, poet and creative writing professor, Susan s memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune Knopf 2011 , was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine and the Daily Beast It was an Oprah Magazine Top Ten Pick of the Month, a Slate Magazine Book of the Week and a finalist for the Choice Award It won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir Other work of hers has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review and elsewhere Susan Conley has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, and the Massachusetts Arts Council A former faculty member at Emerson College, she has also taught at Colby College and Simmons College She currently teaches at the University of Southern Maine s Stonecoast MFA Program, and is the Jack Kerouac Visiting Writer at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell She s also the co founder of The Telling Room, a nonprofit creative writing lab in Portland, Maine, where she leads a variety of workshops.