My French Connection: Coming to Grips With the Worlds Most Beautiful but Baffling Country

In 1988, journalist Sheryle Bagwell went to France seeking an escape from her real life back home. She discovered an unexpected country - one where the popular images of naturally thin women and national arrogance vie with the spread of fast food and crippling self -doubt about France's place in the world; where hypochondria and slacker ethic are national obsessions; and where the code of liberte, egalite, and fraternite is being tested by the rise of an anti-immigrant mood and violent street riots.