This group will look to past winners of the American Library in Paris Book Award. Exploring the perennially relevant relationship between the United States and France, the books will span many genres: fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction, for instance. All books continue to provoke enduring interest, critical analysis and discussion. Questions posed during the group will include: How, if at all, has the book changed your impressions or notions about the subject?  What is the most surprising or revealing take away for you after reading? How has this book deepened your view of the ongoing relationship between France and the United States?

Led by Connie Farrell Scuderi

• Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude 
• Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 by Lynn Gumpert and Debra Bricker Balken
• #You Know You’re Black in France When…: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness by Trica Keaton
• The French Resistance and Its Legacy by Rod Kedward

• 20 September
• 18 October
• 15 November
• 20 December