Little Palace

Ushering his reader softly through intimate scenes of life in Paris, Adam J. Gellings, whose speaker's "heart, like an old snail, is not the same heart it once was," makes me hungry to return to this city of smoky rooms, street cats, Cézanne paintings, and fresh baguettes. But, ah, I have already just been there "pounding hard" fresh dough "to reshape its center against the snowy counter until its figure is full." That's how I feel reading Little Palace-like I have just been to Paris again.

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