The synopsis: A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love and loss, as their lives intersect in surprising ways.

Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely ex-pat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world.

As they meet with their tutors—Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet, Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt, and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal—each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse the grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves.

My thoughts:  The stories within this novel are quietly powerful, and rotate around sadness, thriving on the sorrows of the characters each novella features.  But the Americans within the story aren't the ones I got swept up in.  The main character for me was Nico and to a lesser degree Chantal.  While I didn't get swept up in the stories, they did resonate and the ending was quite surprising for me.  A good, provocative novel which will make people feel; be it anger, sadness, sorrow or disdain - Sussman did an amazing job in creating a story which could divide where peoples' loyalties lie within.  (So it really would be a good book club pick)