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I Am Finally, Finally French: My Accidental Life in Brittany (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781510783973)
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xThe long-awaited sequel to the bestselling (Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living
Thirty years ago, Mark Greenside arrived in Brittany with a girlfriend and left with something unexpected: a lifelong love affair with a village, its people, and its way of life. When a series of impulsive, improbable decisions landed him the keys to a 120-year-old farmhouse in Plobien, Mark began a bumbling, hilarious journey through the trials and triumphs of adapting to life in rural France. From navigating unwritten rules about touching tomatoes at the market to hosting dinners for discerning locals, every mishap and cultural misunderstanding became a lesson in resilience, humility, and humor. Now, decades later, Mark reflects on the unforeseen joys and challenges of growing older in the place he calls home every summer. With his trademark wit and self-awareness, he reveals how his life in Plobien--and his neighbors' enduring patience--have shaped him into something he never thought he'd become: truly, deeply, finally French. Both a love letter to Brittany and a meditation on life's unpredictability, I am Finally Finally French is an invitation to laugh, learn, and savor the beauty of embracing change--no matter how daunting it seems.
Author: Mark Greenside
ISBN-10: 1510783970
ISBN-13: 9781510783973
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2025
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Thirty years ago, Mark Greenside arrived in Brittany with a girlfriend and left with something unexpected: a lifelong love affair with a village, its people, and its way of life. When a series of impulsive, improbable decisions landed him the keys to a 120-year-old farmhouse in Plobien, Mark began a bumbling, hilarious journey through the trials and triumphs of adapting to life in rural France. From navigating unwritten rules about touching tomatoes at the market to hosting dinners for discerning locals, every mishap and cultural misunderstanding became a lesson in resilience, humility, and humor. Now, decades later, Mark reflects on the unforeseen joys and challenges of growing older in the place he calls home every summer. With his trademark wit and self-awareness, he reveals how his life in Plobien--and his neighbors' enduring patience--have shaped him into something he never thought he'd become: truly, deeply, finally French. Both a love letter to Brittany and a meditation on life's unpredictability, I am Finally Finally French is an invitation to laugh, learn, and savor the beauty of embracing change--no matter how daunting it seems.
Author: Mark Greenside
ISBN-10: 1510783970
ISBN-13: 9781510783973
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/28/2025
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
By Mark Greenside
xMark Greenside has been a civil rights activist, Vietnam War protestor, anti-draft counselor, VISTA Volunteer, union leader, and college professor. His stories have appeared in the Sun, the Literary Review, Cimarron Review, the Nebraska Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, the New Laurel Review, Crosscurrents, Five Fingers Review, and the Long Story, as well as other journals and magazines, and he is the author of a short story collection, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife. and two previous memoirs about life in France, I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do), and (Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living. He resides in Alameda, CA, and Brittany, France.
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