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Americans France Paris Fiction FICTION / Contemporary Women FICTION / Family Life FICTION / Literary France Paris Immigrants France Paris Fiction Paris (France) Social conditions 20th century Fiction Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Self-realization in women Women teachers FictionBrown, Eleanor
Summary: "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2016Conley, Susan
Summary: "From acclaimed author Susan Conley, a novel that gives us a luminous emotional portrait of a young woman living abroad in Paris in the 1980s and trying to make sense of the chaotic world around her as she learns the true meaning of family. When Willie Pears agrees to teach at a Parisian center for immigrant girls who have requested French asylum, she has no idea it will utterly change her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013