num_pages: 370
description: Meg Parker an American travel-book writer lives in the Lorraine countryside with her two small children and a neglectful husband. Domestic life is beginning to take its toll until Meg is offered her dream to write a guidebook about French history. Unfortunately there is a catch. Jean-Jacques a scruffy and imperious photographer has been assigned to the project. As the dueling pair visits each region in search of the past what they find is the colorful food-filled presentthe festive bullfights in the Camargue the sacred gypsy pilgrimage at Stes-Maries-de-la-Mer the pictographs and lightning storms of Mount Bgo. And over the course of mouthwatering mealsof lamb daube paella and ros bull steak and anchioade Brebis and strawberriestheir antagonistic collaboration turns into a fiery love affair.Meg's notions about historyabout what we preserve and how we accept the newevolve and in the end she must reconcile her two lives and decide what to hold on to and what to let go.
language: English
title: The Feasting Season
publisher: Algonquin Books