French vs. American social customs and behavior are observed in a story about an American visiting h...
French vs. American social customs and behavior are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.
The differences in legalities and cultural mores of French and American regarding sex, love, marriage, religion and family bonds are presented through the interaction of two families related by marriage. American Isabel Walker heads to Paris to visit her half-sister, poet Roxeanne de Perand, who is early in the pregnancy of her second child. Isabel arrives to find that Roxy's French husband, Charles-Henri de Perand, has just left Roxy, the sister both eventually further learning that it is because he has fallen in love with another woman, who is herelf married. Roxy and Charles-Henri deal with their break-up, which Roxy does not want but must face the legal conequences of, including determining the ownerhip of what may be a valuable French painting that has been casually in the Walker family for year, but which Roxy has had in her possession since she got married. Meanwhile, Isabel begin to explore all that France has to offer, which includes concurrently embarking on sexual...
