Who Needs Paris by Joan Meyerson

IWhat a joy to be transferred back to Paris with Joan Meyerson’s book: WHO NEEDS PARIS? This is Joan’s debut book, but I am sure there are many more books in her. I’ve already invited her back for next year!

I can answer Joan’s question. Everyone! It is always so thrilling to be there. I can remember every detail about my first trip. All the places I walked. All the things that amazed me. Back in those days before cell phones–yes, people there was a time when we didn’t have cell phones. In fact, back when I first arrived in Paris the only way you could call the States was in the American Express Office. They had phone booths and you had to wait until the operator connected your call. One time I waited two hours for my person-to-person call to my father to go through! Those were the days…

That’s why I so enjoyed Joan’s dual timeline story that goes back and forth between the 1960’s and the 1970’s. An absolutely delightful period to have been in Paris. I loved discovering that Joan and I had similar experiences and love Paris. 

Joan’s book gave me the best of both periods with a story about Kate …….

II love the cover which is so evocative of those times when we were so happy! 

About the Book:

Who needs Paris? Certainly not Kate Miller. Ever since she was a student at the Sorbonne in the ’60s, she’s avoided Paris like the plague. But now it’s 1977, and her life as a documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles is going nowhere. She’s smart and clever, but dark memories of that youthful past have shut her down. When a French TV director offers her a job in Paris, she senses it may be her only chance to free herself of those memories. Kate reluctantly returns. 

What she finds is a Paris of promise, opportunity, and a delicious sexual reawakening. In her job at a film festival, a famous actor inspires her to play a character of her own … and Kate begins to reinvent herself. Get the book and discover what she discovers about herself and how to become true to herself.