Twelve tales of North Americans in Paris and the south of France that are by turns witty, sensual, moving, and surprising. Contains The Little Black Dress, Son and Father, I Love Mozart, The Boy Who Read A Simple Heart, A Melancholy Bride, Domesticity, Woodenheads, Are They Really Cézanne's Apples?, Train Stations Are Beautiful, You'll Be Glad to Know, Baa Baa Black Sheep, The Other Journal.