Paris Blue

<p><strong>PARIS 1976: In this memoir of first love twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik arrives in the City of Light to study the flute when from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris she is drawn to Luc a striking (married) French lawyer in the bass section.</strong></p><p><strong>This moving Paris memoir captures the unfolding story of an ebullient young American and a reserved Frenchman transporting readers to the cafés streets and concert halls of 1970s Paris. Spanning three decades the story evolves from deep romance to sudden heartbreak and finally to a lifelong quest for answers to release hidden immutable grief.</strong></p><p><strong>Against a magical backdrop of Paris and classical music <em>Paris Blue</em> is a true fairy-tale memoir (with a dark underbelly) about the tenacious grip of first love.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Praise for <em>Paris Blue</em></strong></p><p><em>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. </em></p><p>- John Irving</p>