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An American couple and their infant son leave the familiarty of New York City to live in the glamour of Paris. The story is revealing and often humorous as they learn to manage in a foreign city with a new language, new customs and adjust to being new parents. Gives the reader an insight into the daily life of Americans in Paris.

Gopnik wrote for The New Yorker, and this narrative of five years living in Paris with a small child is very much in The New Yorker style - which is to say, scattered among the punditries one finds some marvelous details. I still love Paris - and so does he.

Good writer, not a good story. Ramblings about his love of Paris as well as beginning a family.

A delightful book. Gopnik is a talented writer and so even if I didn't like Paris, I would want to read it. I couldn't stop chuckling while reading the essay about his efforts to find a health club.

Wonderful look at what it's like for an American couple to move to Paris - right before the woman gives birth.

I read this while visiting Paris and desperately missing my 2 year old, and realized that I was staying on the street on which the author lived while writing it. But, regardless of my situation at the time, I loved this book! Adam Gopnik brings a fresh wit to the experience of being an American (well, actually, he's Canadian) in Paris. My very favorite part was his tourings of the taxidermy museum and his son's love/hate/fear relationship with the place. I highly recommend it.