Women À La Mode
A Memoir of Writing a Book about Feminists in Paris
New York, 2009. Augustine Blaisdell had big dreams of helping women become more visible. So with her application for a Fulbright Grant rejected and her job ending, the passionate feminist happily answered an ad for an apartment exchange in Paris. Unable to speak the language and hardly knowing what she hoped to discover, she arrived in the City of Lights and began tutelage with a friend of the legendary Simone de Beauvoir.
Introduced to some of France’s leading female thinkers and like-minded ex-pats, Blaisdell discovered herself and seized womanhood along the banks of the Seine. But as she was mapping out what independence truly meant, she was caught off-guard by the rush of a whirlwind Parisian romance…
“I love this book! Women À La Mode is not just a memoir about women. It’s a book that encompasses all of life.”
— Dan White, author of Under The Stars and The Cactus Eaters
“Women À La Mode celebrates the power of intergenerational female friendship, showing us how these bonds can bring us together and carry us into a bright future.”
— Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? and Cause and Effect