Hannah - an American in Paris researching the lives of women under Nazi occupation - befriends runaway Tariq, a Moroccan teenager, who she takes in as her unlikely lodger. Both become haunted by the stories she unearths but those stories are overshadowed by too much present-day minutiae about Paris, especially Tariq's fascination with the Metro. I kept wondering whether he ever changed his clothes and who did the washing.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 92 Spring 2019 ) |
