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This second novel of Johnson's which I have read traces the adventures of Isabel Walker, an attractive young film school drop out who travels to France to help her sister during her second pregnancy. During the course of her stay in France her sister's husband engages in a romantic liason with a married woman and leaves her. As their divorce procedes Isabel finds herself becomming the mistress to her sisters Uncle in law. Though the lives of these women sound lke a soap opera Johnson blends this into a realistic adventure. The work is yet another interesting exploration of an american abroad while still developing characters and advancing an entertaining plot.
There are many similarities between this novel and the first Johnson work I read, Persian nights. In both an american female whose personal life is in some disarray finds herself in a foreign land rapidly in the midst of new sexual realtionships while the backdrop of her new cultural setting allows Johnson to comment on being american and saying something about the foreign culture that the protagonist is found in.
There are many similarities between this novel and the first Johnson work I read, Persian nights. In both an american female whose personal life is in some disarray finds herself in a foreign land rapidly in the midst of new sexual realtionships while the backdrop of her new cultural setting allows Johnson to comment on being american and saying something about the foreign culture that the protagonist is found in.
