Genre: nonfiction, history
This nonfiction book reads like a comfy introduction to one kind of modern life in Paris as an expat as well as an intricate cultural study of the history and life of one neighborhood bordering one famous street. We meet fishmongers and thrift store owners, local celebrities and working folks trying to put dinner on the table. I enjoy intimate histories like this, the story of one specific place that has changed and morphed over time but still keeps an aura of the years that came before. All the name dropping made me annoyed at the author (often because I felt like SHE felt I should know who someone was but I didn't!) but I learned a lot and I was entertained.
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