Thursday, October 2
Review + Guest-Post + Giveaway at
Musings of a Writer and Unabashed Francophile

Friday, October 3
Spotlight + Giveaway at Deal Sharing Aunt

Saturday, October 4
Giveaway at Queen of All She Reads

Sunday, October 5
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace
Review of Molay’s previous book, The 7th Woman,
at Queen of All She Reads

Monday, October 13
Review at Queen of All She Reads

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You can enter the giveaway here
or on the book blogs participating in this tour.
Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter,
they are listed in the entry form below.

Visit each blogger on the tour:
tweeting about the giveaway everyday of the Tour
will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]

Entry-Form

It’s open internationally
We will have 10 winners:
5 print copies for 5 US residents
5 digital copies for residents of any country

and

C

is also for

Susan CONLEY

SYNOPSIS

With her new novel, Paris Was the Place (Knopf, 2013), Susan Conley offers a beautiful meditation on how much it matters to belong: to a family, to a country, to any one place, and how this belonging can mean the difference in our survival. Novelist Richard Russo calls Paris Was the Place, “by turns achingly beautiful and brutally unjust, as vividly rendered as its characters, whose joys and struggles we embrace as our own.”

When Willie Pears begins teaching at a center for immigrant girls in Paris all hoping for French asylum, the lines between teaching and mothering quickly begin to blur. Willie has fled to Paris to create a new family, and she soon falls for Macon, a passionate French lawyer. Gita, a young girl at the detention center, becomes determined to escape her circumstances, no matter the cost. And just as Willie is faced with a decision that could have dire consequences for Macon and the future of the center, her brother is taken with a serious, as-yet-unnamed illness. The writer Ayelet Waldman calls Paris Was the Place “a gorgeous love story and a wise, intimate journal of dislocation that examines how far we’ll go for the people we love most.” Named on the Indie Next List for August 2013 and on the Slate Summer Reading List, this is a story that reaffirms the ties that bind us to one another.

This is the story of becoming suddenly unemployed, nearing 60 and being forced to face up to the fact that life is about to change drastically. It’s about discovering that your life can fall apart just enough to allow you to put it back together again in a whole new way.

This is the story of tossing the briefcase, cutting up the credit cards, selling the house and buying an 80 year old Dutch barge in France, then setting sail for Paris. It’s a joyful and funny tale of stepping off the beaten path to live a dream that you’d thought you’d forgotten: Living on a barge in the middle of Paris. [Goodreads]

VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, June 23
Spotlight + Giveaway at Literary Chanteuse

Tuesday, June 24
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Book Nerd

Review + Giveaway at Wildmoo Books

Wednesday, June 25
Review + Giveaway at The French Village Diaries

Thursday, June 26
Review + Giveaway at An Accidental Blog

Friday, June 27
Review at Lisa’s Yarns

Tuesday, July 1st
Review + Interview + Giveaway
at Books Are Cool

Wednesday, July 2
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace