In Paris: A Love Story, NPR and ABC News correspondent Kati Marton lays bare her extraordinary love for the City of Lights as well as her grief over the loss of Richard Holbrooke, her third husband. Beginning with Holbrooke's death in 2010, Marton brings the reader along on a journey through her childhood, her marriage to (and divorce from) fellow ABC News correspondent Peter Jennings and her years with Holbrooke, all centered on Paris--the city in which "Kati is more Kati" than in any other place, as Holbrooke put it.
The daughter of Hungarian immigrants to the U.S., Kati Marton first fell in love with Paris during a study abroad year at the Sorbonne. Ten years later, she learned to adore the city through fresh eyes during her tumultuous and passionate relationship with Jennings. As that marriage crumbled, Marton returned to France, where a whirlwind trip through the Loire Valley with Holbrooke led to 17 years of marriage--and an apartment just blocks from Marton's student lodgings so many years before. As she recounts this story, Marton shares her deep love for her family as well as her grief, which plays out in cycles, striking both the author and the reader at odd moments with extraordinary force. Paris: A Love Story is a memoir that is as much about loving Paris as it is about loving another person. --Dani Alexis Ryskamp, blogger at The Book Cricket