Paris to the moon

Plot

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. It was in part a professional decision -- Gopnik was to take on The New Yorker's Paris Journals -- but it was also a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the capital of everything cultural and beautiful. Of course, there was the matter of raising a child and carrying on with everyday life. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik manages to weave the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful book.