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Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
by: Sarah Turnbull

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 944.361004240092
EAN: 9781592400829
ISBN: 1592400825
Label: Gotham
Manufacturer: Gotham
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 03, 2004
Publisher: Gotham
Release Date: August 05, 2004
Studio: Gotham
Sales Rank: 25983

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor.

Sarah Turnbull’s stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frédéric together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decides to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world’s most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite for vichyssoise, the feisty journalist does her best to fit in, although her conversation, her laugh, and even her wardrobe advertise her foreign status.

But as she navigates the highs and lows of this strange new world, from life in a bustling quartier and surviving Parisian dinner parties to covering haute couture fashion shows and discovering the paradoxes of French culture, little by little Sarah falls under its spell: maddening, mysterious, and charged with that French specialty—seduction.

Customer Reviews

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- Any spouse who has given up a job to follow someone else can relate!
As someone who has lived in foreign countries (as a student and then as a military spouse choosing to live off base), I kept saying out loud to something Sarah said, "Exactly! That's JUST how I felt!" She really captures the love-hate aspect of living in a foreign country, of giving up a job and then struggling to find another when you move, of days spent alone at home, especially at first. This is one of those books where I kept copying down lines I wanted to remember...and to share.
I do a lot of workshops for military spouses, helping them to adjust to the "foreign world" of the military itself, but also to other foreign worlds as they move. Sarah has so many lessons in this memoir that fit that group to the T: "And then it clicked! Stop trying to fit in. Just be yourself."..."If ... Read More

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- Total understanding
I ompletely understand how Sarah felt. I also am married to a frenchman from the north of France. Every story she tells I have also lived. I understand how you are invisible at parties, the need to be well dressed always. I am American and have been in those uncomfortable situations where politics has been brought up in conversation making you want to crawl under the table rather than try to defend (in french no less)your country's actions. I have also wished my husband was from a nice town in Provence rather than a amall village in the Pas de Calais. But I wouldn't give up my French family and friends for anything. This book is right on. I laughed so much and read passages outloud to my husband.

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- Almost French! Not so Sure!
The first time I came to visit Australia, this book was a big hit. Obviously because I am French and my husband Australian, people gave it to us. It was 6 years ago. Back in France I read it curious to see my country being described by one of my husband's compatriots.

Unfortunately, not only this book was a big deception regarding its style or lack of it but I was getting annoyed and frustrated. In fact, I thought with a journalist background, the author, Sarah Turnbull, would have been more incline to go beyond the usual stereotypes. On the contrary, her book is filled with articles of hers, describing the French bourgeois, having expensive wardrobe and $2000 pet dogs. Owners, of 400 years old farm, people dancing rock in line, frustrated woman who cannot dare to laugh, etc. ... Read More

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- It's a very good pick!
I loved it, simply because Sarah Turnbull captivates the reality of so many people who end up living in another country and even though they start a new life, with new people and new meaning around them, is never quite the same... You find yourself in the new place wishing you were somewhere else, and when you return to your country you wish you were back in the other one. It explains the struggle of culture integration and the differences that may seem to drive you crazy, but in the end those things become part of your every day life. The book inspired me to make the best out of my personal situation, I felt so identified with her and so encouraged to embrace who I am and at the same time embrace my new life in another country. I loved it!

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- very real
Our family lived in France from 1992-1995. Though it has been a few years now, all the memories of trying to adjust, fit in, make sense of France and the French, came flowing back through my mind as I read Sarah's book. Very well written, easy and enjoyable to read, she nails the frustrations, the puzzlements, and the occasional delights of living in this special European country.

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