Paris Lost and Found
A Memoir of Love

I received this book through Library Thing Early Reviewers. Married life is changing for Scott Dominic Carpenter. His wife has been diagnosed with dementia and it is taking her away. Scott had been introduced to Paris at age 10 by a trip with his family. The memories stayed with him, along with his so......more

Thanks to LibraryThing & Traveler’s Tales for an advance reader's copy. All comments and opinions are my own. I’d read and enjoyed Carpenter’s earlier book, French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris in 2020 so was looking forward to this one. It was a humorous and bittersweet memoir about loss and sta......more

Paris is known as the City of Light, but for Scott Dominic Carpenter, who splits his time between St. Paul and Paris, it also became the City of Loss. Carpenter’s first memoir FRENCH LIKE MOI, introduced readers to a different Paris – the day-to-day life of an expat living in the not so cool part of......more

Scott is an inwardly interesting man, and as such, everything external recounted through his point of view entertains. I have laughed and cried, often at the same time, while reading this book; this intimate mosaic of memories. Every mention of Anne and the struggles of managing her condition shatte......more

While this book was very much about Paris, I primarily think about it as a book about losing a beloved spouse in a painful way. Carpenter's wife dies of dementia, and as she does, their shared and wonderful life in Paris begins to fragment for Carpenter as well, and he shares that fragmentation with......more