Name: A Gift from Brittany

Author: Marjorie Price
Year: 2008
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Memoirs, Non Fiction
Culture: France

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The enchanting memoir of an artist's liberating sojourn in France during the sixties and the friendship that transformed her lifeWhile in her late twenties, Marjorie Price leaves the comfort of her Chicago suburb to strike out on her own in Paris and hone her artistic talents. Dazzled by everything French, she falls in love with a volatile French painter and they purchase an old farmhouse in the Breton countryside. When Marjorie's seemingly idyllic marriage begins to unravel, she forms a friendship with an elderly peasant woman, Jeanne, who is illiterate, has three cows to her name, and has never left the village. Their differences are staggering yet they forge a friendship that transforms one another's life.
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