Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994-1995

YOU NEVER KNOW who is going to walk through that door. . . . . . . . Twenty-nine year old James sees his suburban New York routine upended when 24 year old Isabelle sits in front of him the first day in their University of Long Island history class. Isabelle's interest in America catches James off guard; Frenchwomen like Isabelle, he had thought, did not exist. In turn, Isabelle comes to see James as an "authentic" American of the sort she wants to get to know; she is convinced expats and students in Paris are unrepresentative of their fellow citizens at home. They hit it off immediately. During the next thirteen months lives change profoundly, and theirs are only the beginning. Follow a group of sometimes unlikely international friends as they grow through dealing with what comes their way. An INTIMATE tale of evolving RELATIONSHIPS in an increasingly GLOBAL world, will keep you enthralled to the end.