A childhood memoir of a thirteen-year-old girl’s momentous year living in Paris with her New England family, transplanted on account of her father’s new position as head of the European Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. A sensitive girl on the cusp of adolescence determined to claim her own identity, yet bound to her family and especially her younger sister, with whom she felt the closeness of a twin, her courage and determination resonate through stories both familiar and inspiring.

The 75 illustrations that enrich the text include childhood snapshots, photographs of the family’s idiosyncratic 16-acre ocean-front home near Gloucester, MA, and over a dozen reproductions of paintings.