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All the Light We Cannot See
“At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the...
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Packing for Paris
I try to make my traveling adventures reading adventures, too. We’re headed to Paris to see our son, with a two-day stop in London, my first visit to both cities. Then we’ll go to Metz, France for a...
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Spring flowers and Colette, in Paris
“As noisy as Paris was in those days, it always had its unexpected moments of stillness. At Cours-la-Reine, between one and one-thirty in the afternoon, when the last trucks had reached their canteens,...
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Suite Française and my father
The Moselle River in Metz, France. My father was wounded on November 14, 1944 in the weeks-long Battle of Metz. After the city was liberated, the Allies went on to break through to Germany in the...
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Patrick Modiano’s elusive Paris, what my father never saw
La tour Eiffel. (Photo by A. Hallinan) “Tell all the truth but tell it slant–“ Emily Dickinson If you dislike ambiguity and prefer straightforward plots, you may become impatient with Patrick Modiano’s...
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