Cross-Smith wrote that book, but with a female protagonist. We have an endless number of male-authored books featuring our male protagonist in a transitional space who processes by having sex with lots of women or lots of sex with one woman. This is a romance like Doctor Zhivago and Lady Chatterley's Lover are romance.įor me, it's straight-up literary fiction with a bold feminist twist-so much so that I found it to be almost *too* obvious!- but I guess that was a tough line for Cross-Smith to tread because I can see from the reviews here that it went over many heads. While it is set in Paris (see below for my thoughts on how American writers just can't depict Parisian life accurately), it is NOT a romance. I'm a huge fan of Cross-Smith and was hesitant to read this because, based on reviews, I thought this was a romance set in Paris, two things I generally avoid.
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