About the book
The year is 1951. The setting is Paris. The civil rights, feminist and sexual revolutions of the 60s and 70s are yet to happen. /Heat of Paris/ is about the confluence of these forces well before they become mainstream in America. They are played out through two young people, a 26-year-old white man from rural upstate New York and a 24-year-old Negro woman from Harlem. Franz, a young soldier fresh from the battlefield of World War II, travels to Paris as a stringer for a new start-up magazine. There he meets Christie, a master’s student researching the French writer Georg Sand. This chance meeting leads to a uniquely American post-war love story full of adventure, tenderness, and hope for a better future. Their struggle foreshadows the struggle of America which is yet to come.
