Le Divorce
Author: Diane Johnson
A New York Times BestsellerDivorce follows this smart, sexy American abroad as she arrives in Paris to visit stepsister Roxy, a poet whose marriage into an aristocratic French family assured her of a coveted place in Parisian society. But all is not as it should be in the Persand household: Roxy’s husband has just left her for the Czechoslovakian wife of an American lawyer….Read More
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