Following his hilarious introduction to Paris in French Like Moi, midwesterner Scott Dominic Carpenter returns to the scene of the crime with more tales of intrigue in his new book Paris Lost & Found: A Memoir of Love. This time, though, the story starts with sorrow as the author’s wife struggles with dementia. Humor may be the best medicine, but even the antics of a vandal in their building can’t cement the tiles of her memory for long. Before he expects it, Carpenter finds himself alone in a capital that is also blighted by the pandemic.

Books will be available for purchase and signing in person.

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Scott Dominic Carpenter teaches French literature and creative writing at Carleton College. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Award (2018), he is the author of French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris (winner of a Next Generation Indie Book Award), This Jealous Earth: Stories, and Theory of Remainders: A Novel (a Kirkus Best Book of 2013), which is currently under option with a major film production company. Carpenter splits his time between St. Paul and Paris.

This visit sponsored by Valley Bookseller.