Family bonds and the substance of love are examined against the dreamy beauty of mid-nineteenth century Paris in the latest from Joaquim (Sophia, A Woman’s Search for Troy). In 1853, French citizen Charles Fabron is mourning the death of his wife and twin sons when he is offered a position as an architect in The Paris Project–a years-long initiative to physically and culturally transform old Paris into the “sanitized, soul-stirring urban masterpiece” nicknamed the “City by the Seine.” Fabron reluctantly signs on under the project’s mastermind, Prefect Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, but soon discovers that rebuilding a centuries-old city is not what he anticipated, in the process uncovering his own family secrets and finding love in the most unexpected places.
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