On Paris: Eloisa James on Paris In Love, Pamela Druckerman on One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting and Rosecrans Baldwin on Paris, I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down
Sunday, Nov. 18, 3:00 p.m., Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Eloisa James
Paris in Love: A Memoir (Random House, $26.00) chronicles Eloisa James’s joyful year in one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world. Following her mother’s death from cancer and her own similar diagnosis, James sold her house, took a sabbatical from her university job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. “Reading this memoir was like wandering through a Parisian patisserie in a dream.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love. James, writing under the pen name of Mary Bly, is a bestselling author of romance novels. This is her first memoir.
Pamela Druckerman
In raising children as in making love, the French do it better, according to Pamela Druckerman, author of Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (Penguin, 25.95). When the American journalist living in Paris had her first child, she realized that certain parenting truths― sleepless nights, hectic meals, interrupted conversations―didn’t apply to many of her French counterparts. Fueled by journalistic curiosity and a touch of maternal desperation, Druckerman investigates the differences between French and American parenting styles. “What Amy Chua did for Tiger Mothers, Pamela Druckerman promises to do for French parents.”—Newsweek Daily Beast. Druckerman is a former staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered foreign affairs. She is the author of Lust in Translation, which was translated into eight languages.
Rosencrans Baldwin
Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00) is Rosencrans Baldwin’s memoir of his 18 months in Paris as a writer for a global advertising copy. His idealized notions of the City of Light run up against reality as Baldwin comes to realize that Paris is not all croissants and cathedrals. “. . . great fun and surprisingly touching,” says Kirkus in its starred review. Baldwin’s debut novel, You Lost Me There, was named of NPR’s Best Books of 2010 and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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