"Enthralled by Paris and its inhabitants since childhood, Adam Gopnik moved to the city with his wife and infant son in 1995. He was there for five years observing and writing about its eccentricities and the challenges and joys of raising a small child there.
He chronicles the city's couture, cuisine, children's carousels, fax machines that refuse to function and his struggles to buy a Thanksgiving turkey, with his own elegant style of wit and insight. His reports on pure politics, like the trial of Maurice Papon, are piercingly, painfully acute.
This book is no more nor less than a series of affectionate but merciless love letters by an American who simply adores his subject and writes so seductively that, guided by him, you will fall in love with Adam Gopnik's Paris too." -- Back cover