Romanceinfrance Stories

When Ava Fodor returns to New York from Paris, she leaves behind her budding romance with Pierre and turns her attention to another man: Zsolt Fodor, her father. He's a penniless Hungarian poet transplanted to New York in the wake of the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising. Raised by her New England grandparents, Ava barely knows him. Dramatic, effusive, emotional, he's everything her grandmother warned her against. Yet his crazy conversation fascinates her. His chicken paprikash isn't bad either. Pierre's pull draws Ava back to France, to the medieval walled city of Carcassonne. There, his tender care of his ailing mother awakens Ava to something lacking in herself. Unless she finds it, she can't give him her heart. When her father has a heart attack, Ava is thrust into a caregiver role, looking after a man who never looked after her. She's terrible at it. So was her father, so he forgives her. But can she forgive him? Until she learns to love the man she has every reason to abandon in his hour of need, she can't move on. Only her father can show her the way. But will she let him? And if she can, will it be too late for Pierre and her? Black is Not a Color is Part II of The Ava Series: Ava Fodor's journey of self discovery, begun in Paris Adieu.

Ava Fodor is a slightly plump, frizzy-haired nineteen-year-old American au pair in Paris who struggles with being less than perfect. Jean-Michel is Ava's fussy, exacting first French boyfriend whose provincialism drives her up the wall yet who educates her on all matters Parisian. but is their romance first love or coming of age sex? Four years later, Pascal, Ava's second French boyfriend, gives her something she'll thank him for eternally - an introduction to her own womanhood. Arnaud, Ava's third French boyfriend, dazzles Ava's head as well as her heart, until she finally tires of matching wits with him in a never ending zero-sum game. When Arnaud's friend Pierre shows interest in her original songs in a way Arnaud never has, Ava gains insight into who she really is and where she belongs. Pierre's entrance into her life catalyzes her to move in a new direction - back to New York armed with the lessons Paris has taught her.

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When Ava Fodor returns to New York from Paris, she leaves behind her budding romance with Pierre and turns her attention to another man: Zsolt Fodor, her father. He's a penniless Hungarian poet transplanted to New York in the wake of the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising. Raised by her New England grandparents, Ava barely knows him. Dramatic, effusive, emotional, he's everything her grandmother warned her against. Yet his crazy conversation fascinates her. His chicken paprikash isn't bad either. Pierre's pull draws Ava back to France, to the medieval walled city of Carcassonne. There, his tender care of his ailing mother awakens Ava to something lacking in herself. Unless she finds it, she can't give him her heart. When her father has a heart attack, Ava is thrust into a caregiver role, looking after a man who never looked after her. She's terrible at it. So was her father, so he forgives her. But can she forgive him? Until she learns to love the man she has every reason to abandon in his hour of need, she can't move on. Only her father can show her the way. But will she let him? And if she can, will it be too late for Pierre and her? Black is Not a Color is Part II of The Ava Series: Ava Fodor's journey of self discovery, begun in Paris Adieu.

Ava Fodor, a slightly plump, frizzy-haired nineteen-year-old American au pair in Paris struggles with being less than perfect. Jean-Michel is Ava's fussy, exacting first French boyfriend whose provincialism drives her up the wall yet who educates her on all matters Parisian. But is their romance first love or coming of age sex? Four years later, Pascal, Ava's second French boyfriend, gives her something she'll thank him for eternally - an introduction to her own womanhood. Arnaud, Ava's third French boyfriend, dazzles Ava's head as well as her heart, until she finally tires of matching wits with him in a never ending zero-sum game. When Arnaud's friend Pierre shows interest in her in a way Arnaud never has, Ava gains insight into who she really is and where she belongs. Pierre's entrance into her life catalyzes her to move in a new direction - back to New York armed with the lessons Paris has taught her.