Description
When Willie Pears arrives in Paris, she’s looking for adventure and to reconnect with her brother, Luke. Even so, when she takes a job teaching at a center for immigrant girls who are all hoping for French asylum, she does not expect to feel so connected to the ups and downs of their lives—or to find romance with their attractive and committed lawyer, Macon. But as Willie learns the girls’ histories, the lines between teaching and mothering quickly begin to blur, leading her to make a risky move that will threaten to upend the life and relationships she’s found.
About the Author
Susan Conleyis the author ofLandslide(Knopf, February 2021): “a spectacular tale of hardship and healing. Conley has knocked it out of the park," (Lily King,Writers and Lovers). Susan's previous novelElsey Come Home(Knopf, 2019), was a Most Anticipated/Best Book at Oprah Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Amazon Books, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Southern Living Magazine, Fodors, The Library Journal, Maine Women’s Magazine, and others.Susanis also the author ofParis Was the Place(Knopf, 2013), an Amazon Fall Big Books Pick for fiction, an Indie Next Pick, anElle MagazineReaders Prize Pick, and aPeoplemagazine Top Pick. Susan’s memoir,The Foremost Good Fortune(Knopf 2011), was excerpted in theNew York Times Magazineand the Daily Beast. It was anOprah MagazineTop Ten Pick of the Month, a Slate Magazine “Book of the Week” and a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Award. It won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir. Other work of hers has appeared inThe New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post, Ploughshares, The Harvard Reviewand elsewhere.Susan has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. A former faculty member at Emerson College, she has also taught at Colby College and Simmons College. She currently teaches at the University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program, and is the co-founder ofThe Telling Room, a nonprofit creative writing lab in Portland, Maine.
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