Name: Paris Lost and Found with Scott Carpenter
Start: 2025-01-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-10T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Alliance Française of Washington DC, 2142 Wyoming Avenue NW

Paris Lost and Found with Scott Carpenter

Meet the award winning author of French Like Moi, who will make you laugh and cry with his new memoir of love "Paris Lost and Found."
About this Event

ABOUT THE EVENT

We are so excited to have Scott Carpenter back at the Alliance, and this time in person! In 2020 he presented his first book, French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris, for which he won a Next Generation Indie Book Award, and absolutely charmed our audience. Now, Carpenter will be back and this time en personne at the Alliance to talk about his new book Paris Lost & Found: A Memoir of Love, in which he returns to the 'scene of the crime' with more tales of intrigue. This time, he’s reeling from loss—and hoping the City of Light will come to his rescue...

EVENT FORMAT

Doors open at 6:30pm. Conversation starts at 7:00pm. Light reception to follow.

REVIEWERS WRITE

“Honestly, the funniest book I’ve ever read that also made me cry.” —Heather Stimmler, editor of Secrets of Paris

“The best travel book I’ve read all year.” —Gillian Kendall, Perceptive Travel

“Carpenter takes us on a deeply personal journey, illuminating with poignant humor the City of Light, and loss, and love.” —Don George, author of The Way of Wanderlust

“A nuanced memoir about loss, starting over, and embracing a new home abroad.” —Foreword Clarion Reviews

ABOUT THE BOOK

Paris Lost & Found: A Memoir of Love by Scott Dominic Carpenter

What to do when life smacks you down? Head for Paris, of course!

From bizarre encounters on the Metro to comical clashes with authority figures, including a quixotic battle against a flock of migrant parrots, and even the tribulations of dating, Paris Lost and Found unveils sides of the great city that are as quirky as they are authentic. With a unique blend of wit, insight, and wistfulness, Carpenter charts a path through a labyrinth of challenges—only to emerge on the other side, squinting into the bright light of hope and new beginnings.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Scott Dominic Carpenter teaches French literature and creative writing at Carleton College (MN). Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Award (2018), he is the author of French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris (winner of a Next Generation Indie Book Award), This Jealous Earth: Stories, and Theory of Remainders: A Novel (a Kirkus Best Book of 2013), which is currently under option with a major film production company. Carpenter splits his time between St. Paul and Paris. His website is sdcarpenter.com.