Jacqueline in Paris by Ann Mah
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A fascinating historical fiction account of 20-year old Jacqueline Bouvier and the year she spent in Paris in 1949 -- her junior year at Vassar. She stays with a family in Paris, along with several other girls from Smith College. She has broken free from the close confines of her mother and family life, and gets to explore what she wants to, unencumbered. She immediately loves the Parisian life -- restaurants, clubs, theater, making friends, seeing the sites, a burgeoning romance, etc. It is said that Jacqueline Bouvier felt that this year was the most impactful and influential part of her life. The reader gleans a true sense of time and place in post-war Paris; the sparkling as well as the remnants of war.
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