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Lily King’s highly acclaimed, award-winning debut novel is the storyplot of Rosie, an American au pair in Paris whose coming old defies all our usual conceptions of naïveté and experience. Rosie is fleeing an unspeakable loss that has left her homesick on her behalf family. As she awkwardly grasps for what to communicate with and hook up to Nicole, the cool, distant, and beautifully polished mother of the three children she cares for, Rosie’s bond with the patriarch of family members develops almost too naturally. When Lola, the middle child, begins to suspect an indecent intimacy between Rosie and her father, Rosie moves south of France to look after Nicole’s elderly guardian, the storyteller of the family’s secrets. There, she discovers a past darkened by war and duplicity, and lastly comes to understand the tragedy behind Nicole’s elusive demeanor.
