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aging parents, bad boys, Black is Not a Color, book club, caregiving, Chanel, eldercare, european intellectual history, Hungarian culture, Hungary, Jamie Cat Callan, Jane Stern, Meredith Schorr, my book club; book club recommendation;, Paris Adieu, Reverdy, Rimbaud, romance, Rozsa Gaston, women's fiction
The point in life…is to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.~Pierre Reverdy from Coco Chanel by Lisa Chaney
Who 
is Pierre Reverdy? An early twentieth century French poet and influencer of others. He made Arthur Rimbaud look like a choir boy.
Reverdy was a dear friend of Gabrielle Coco Chanel. Handsome, independent, a trifle brutish, he appealed to the peasant woman buried deep inside the exquisite Chanel.
In other words, Chanel’s bad boy. Need I say more? 
Find out more about bad boys in my latest book Black is Not a Color, sequel to Paris Adieu. Out in audiobook, it’s the story of Ava Fodor’s struggle to care for her father while cultivating her relationship with her new French boyfriend Pierre. Not a bad boy. 
Too good for Ava, in her mind, in fact.
Can Ava measure up? First she needs to measure up to caring for her father, who didn’t raise her as a child. Not easy.
Ava is not the only grown up child of a parent who didn’t raise her. There are many men and women with such a tale out there. Coco Chanel was one. If Ava’s idol Chanel could get beyond a rough start in life, so can Ava. So can you.
Listen to Ava’s story in Black is Not a Color and take inspiration. Move out of the shadows of a less than ideal childhood and take your place in the sun. Coco Chanel is your lodestar. And Ava’s story in Black is Not a Color will help you find the hero within yourself.
Warmly,
Rozsa Gaston
Paris Adieu 