The Girl on the Belvedere: Finding Meaning Through Travel, Friendship, and French A Memoir: Finding Meaning Through Travel, Friendship, and French A Memoir

Cheryl Forrest was just four years old when she was photographed sitting on the Plymouth Belvedere, the soon-to-be-buried time capsule, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1957. This memoir is a coming of age story, late in life, when she found the courage to travel abroad to study French. It is also a tale of tutus, for her story is inextricably linked with that of the ballet company with which she danced.

Her life for so long had been limited by to-do lists and everyday responsibilities. Now in her six...