A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0593240286 ISBN13: 9780593240281 Release Date: July 2024 Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) Length: 368 Pages Weight: 1.23 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3" In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong. Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle-aged Minnesotan man who has always been desperately, pretentiously in love with France, more specifically with the idea of France. To follow that love, he and his family move, nearly at random, to the small, rural, scratchy-hot village of Autignac in the south of the country, and he immediately thinks he's made a terrible mistake. Life here is not holding your cigarette chest-high while walking to the caf and pulling off the trick of pretending to be Parisian, it's gett