"Without Reservations"

MGF sent me a book, Without Reservations, by Alice Steinbach. My mother's name is Alice, and the caregivers all call her "Miss Alice"--my and my daughter's middle name is Alice, so happy convergence. Alice's meeting and subsequent obsession with Naohiro, and her hobnobbing with Japanese, fascinated me, of course, and I was also caught by sentences like, "It was time to let go of worrying about such things as whether or not I looked foolish in a pair of trendy shoes." And naturally I read the Paris chapter first!