A #1 bestseller in France, this is a nostalgic portrait of a French scholarship student s discovery of America during the academic year of 1954 1955. I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be American, like any ordinary student, because I figured that was my only chance to survive the immense loneliness looming ahead of me. I was elated to be there, in that remote Virginia alley, on that college campus. I was elated because back there, far away in France, my brothers would never experience this. And the school friends I left behind they too were missing out on this tremendous...
A #1 bestseller in France, this is a nostalgic portrait of a French scholarship student s discovery of America during the academic year of 1954 195...