It's Not Love, It's Just Paris

"This is a novel to get lost in."-Miami Herald

Lita del Cielo has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before returning to work in the family business. She moves into a gently crumbling Left Bank mansion known as "The House of Stars," where the spirited but bedridden Countess Séeacute;raphine rents out rooms to young women visiting Paris to work, study, and, unofficially, to find love. Guarded at first, Lita keeps a cool distance from the other girls, who both intimidate and fascinate her. Then Lita meets the charming and enigmatic, Cato, the son of a notorious right-wing politician, and her world shifts. It's Not Love, It's Just Paris is a spellbinding love story, a portrait of a Paris caught between old world grandeur and the international greenblood elite, and an exploration of one woman's journey to distinguish honesty from artifice and lay claim to her own life.

Author: Patricia Engel
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 08/19/2014
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780802122698

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/18/2015 pg. 24

About the Author
Patricia Engel's debut, Vida, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award, Young Lions Fiction Award, winner of a Florida Book Award and Independent Publisher Book Award, and named Best Book of the Year by NPR, Barnes & Noble, and L.A. Weekly. Patricia lives in Miami.