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PARIS, 1976: Twenty-year-old American student Julie Scolnik had just arrived in the City of Light to study the flute when, from across a sea of faces in the chorus of the Orchestre de Paris, she is drawn to Luc, a striking (married) French lawyer in the bass section. This moving tale of an ebullient young American and a reserved Frenchman will transport readers to the cafés, streets, and concert halls of Paris in the late seventies, and, spanning three decades, evolves from deep romance to sudden heartbreak, and finally to a lifelong quest for answers to release hidden, immutable grief. Against a magical backdrop of Paris and classical music, Paris Blue is true fairy-tale memoir (with a dark underbelly) about the tenacious grip of first love.

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Julie Scolnik's page turner of a memoir captures with beauty and rare insight the power of music, words, and Paris to drive love to madness. - Judith Coffin, author of Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir . . . A deeply felt, bittersweet reflection on how youthful passion changes you and clings to you, forever. -Howard Reich, author of The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel Paris Blue is written with the tender romanticism of Wordsworth and the devastating realism of Flaubert . . . a dazzling love letter to a life lived in music. -Linda Katherine Cutting, author of Memory Slips

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Julie Scolnik is a concert flutist and the founding artistic director of Mistral Music, a chamber music series that since 1997 has been known for its virtuosic artists and imaginative programming and the personal rapport she establishes with audiences. She lives in Boston with her husband, physicist Michael Brower, and her two cats, Daphne and Chloë. They have two adult children, Sophie and Sasha Scolnik-Brower, also musicians.

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