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This could be the ultimate French book. A young narrator, Cecile, drifting into adulthood, in France, is learning about the pleasures of a first love and is experiencing rivalry with her father's new self-assured girlfriend. It's a moody book, full of schemes and chess-like moves in the complex relationships in this story. The author has perfectly captured the tugs toward and away from people, the back-and-forth, love-hate feelings that occur between people. I see why this book is so often inclu
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Seventeen year-old Cecile, her father Raymond and his current girlfriend Elsa are spending the summer in a Mediterranean coastal village. Cecile's mother died several years before and ever since, Raymond has had a string of brief romances. Cecile adores her father and isn't bothered at all by his selfish manipulations of the women he moves in and out of her life and even makes excuses for his behavior until he shows a preference for old friend Anne's company rather than her own.
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