Patricia Engel: It's Not Love, It's Just Paris

A young writer with a great story collection under her belt (Vida), Engel approaches the literary love affair without florid prose or salacious encounters. Instead, she installs her shy, serious protagonist, Lita del Cielo, in a Parisian boardinghouse called the House of Stars with an international cast of young females. Engel lets Lita slowly fall for the quiet son of a politician and pits her new life abroad against her old one at home in the U.S.