Dear Friends,
Many of you know that I have been working on a memoir, Paris Blue, on and off for about four decades. I probably don’t need to tell you how momentous it is for me that it has finally found a publisher. It will be released on October 5, and is available for pre-order now, on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and all independent Booksellers.
Here is the back cover description:
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.
PLEASE watch my 1-minute book trailer here.
You can pre-order on Amazon here
Brookline Booksmith is hosting the virtual book launch on October 6 with one of my favorite authors, Leah Hager Cohen, as the moderator. You can register here, and order a signed book from them.
(And of course, I will always be happy to sign any book at one of our concerts!)
All info on Juliescolnik.com. Thank you so much for letting me share my big news with you!
All best wishes,
Julie
A few author endorsements:
“Not every true story is like a good novel, but this one is. Not every memoir of first love has a satisfying ending, but this one does. The confluence of first love with becoming an artist makes this memoir special.” John Irving
"Paris Blue" could speak to anyone who's ever yearned for closure that never came. But Julie Scolnik's memoir doesn't simply try to make sense of a bewildering romance; through telling the story she manages to bless the past, in all its complexity, while giving herself fully to the present. - Leah Hager Cohen, author of Strangers and Cousins and The Grief of Others
“The haunting impact of our first true and deep love stays with us the remainder of our lives, and all of us struggle in some way to put those emotions - the exultation, the revelries of passion and belonging, and the ultimate scars of loss - into a workable context. This book explores the process, including the barriers, the relapses and the ultimate conclusion that one's life needs to find its own forms.” Greg Fields, author of Arc of the Comet and Through the Waters and the Wild
“ 'Paris Blue" is written with the tender romanticism of Wordsworth and the devastating realism of Flaubert. Her lyrical writing about music transforms these discordant halves into a compelling whole, creating a dazzling love letter to a life lived in music.” Linda Katherine Cutting, author of Memory Slips
Julie Scolnik's memoir, Paris Blue, brings full spectrum color to a love affair with Paris, music, and a man whose limited vision couldn't keep her from shining. Filled with sensuousness, sound, and light, as well as the hard edge of truth, this story of first love grips the reader tight. —Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird Sings
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