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PRAISE FOR PARIS BLUE:
“Not every true story is like a good novel, but this one is. Not every memoir of first love has a satisfying ending, but this one does. The confluence of first love with becoming an artist makes this memoir special.”—John Irving, best-selling author of seventeen novels
“Julie Scolnik’s memoir, Paris Blue, brings full spectrum color to a love affair with Paris, music, and a man whose limited vision couldn’t keep her from shining. Filled with sensuousness, sound, and light, as well as the hard edge of truth, this story of first love grips the reader tight."—Jennifer Rosner, author of If a Tree Falls and The Yellow Bird Sings
“Paris Blue gives melody to our common fancy: that Paris is where all great romances play out. Julie Scolnik’s memoir, recalling for us the myopia of innocence, returns us to our own first loves while establishing itself as a riveting tale both unique and universal.”—Gregory Maguire, novelist, and author of Wicked
“The haunting impact of our first true and deep love stays with us the remainder of our lives, and all of us struggle in some way to put those emotions—the exultation, the revelries of passion and belonging, and the ultimate scars of loss—into a workable context. This memoir explores the process, including the barriers, the relapses and the ultimate conclusion that one’s life needs to find its own forms.”—Greg Fields, author of Arc of the Comet and Through the Waters and the Wild
“Paris Blue, Julie Scolnik’s memoir of first love in Paris, is written with the tender romanticism of Wordsworth and the devastating realism of Flaubert. Her lyrical writing about music transforms these discordant halves into a compelling whole, creating a dazzling love letter to a life lived in music.”—Linda Katherine Cutting, author of Memory Slips
“Captivating! Paris Blue could speak to anyone who’s ever yearned for closure that never came. But Julie Scolnik’s memoir doesn’t simply try to make sense of a bewildering romance; through telling the story she manages to bless the past, in all its complexity, while giving herself fully to the present.”—Leah Hager Cohen, author of Strangers and Cousins and The Grief of Others
“Julie Scolnik’s beautiful page turner of a memoir captures with rare insight the power of music, words, and Paris to drive love to madness. To read her pitch perfect writing is to relive the exhilarations and vulnerabilities of one’s twenties.”—Judith Coffin, author of Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir
“Nothing burns hotter than young love, and Julie Scolnik captures that singular fervor in Paris Blue. But her memoir is more than that: it’s a deeply felt, bittersweet reflection on how youthful passion changes you and clings to you, forever.”—Howard Reich, author of Prisoner of Her Past, and The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel
“Paris Blue drew me in from the opening descriptions of France through a young American woman’s eyes, and its textural details match the depth of the story: a tale of love and exploration. The letters that begin each chapter evoke deep romance and allow the reader to share the author’s sense of possibility. In the final chapters, time moves more quickly, and Scolnik’s growing sense of discovery brings wonderful closure to the story.”—Alex Myers, author of Revolutionary and Continental Divide
“Who hasn’t dreamed of living a year in Paris? Scolnik lived that dream when she was 20, and brings us inside the exhilaration and heartaches of first love, observing her relationship with Luc in such rich detail that she makes it both unique and universal.”—Michael Blanding, author of North by Shakespeare and The Map Thief
“Paris Blue is remarkable in its graceful and forthright sensitivity and insight as she recounts a first great love in all its passion, romance, and pain, set in Paris and a world of music. I couldn’t put the book down."—Judith Wechsler, author of A Human Comedy: Physiognomy and Caricature in 19th century Paris
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Sounds good.
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The book sounds very emotional as well. Thank you for the review.
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