The next day, Meredith makes a point to invite Anna to sit with her at lunch and meet her friends: Josh, Rashmi, and the extremely attractive and charming Étienne St. When they leave her alone, she cries into her pillow until her next-door-neighbor, Meredith, hears her sobs and invites her over for hot chocolate. Her father and mother fly with her to Paris and drop her off at her dorm. She does not want to go to Paris, but she has no choice. The boy she has liked forever has finally kissed her. Her best friend goes to high school with her. She works in a movie theater and writes a blog about film theory and criticism. Anna’s father, a pompous popular author, has decided to send her to boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school.

Kindle.Īnna and the French Kiss, a young adult novel by Stephanie Perkins, is narrated in first-person-present by seventeen-year-old Anna Oliphant. If you like The Fault in Our Stars you will definitely love this book.The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Perkins, Stephanie. The way they talked shows realism to their conversations and that caught my attention. Clair share intelligent conversations about culture, language, and history. In most books I’ve read mostly pairs talk about parties and relationships, but Anna and St. Clair and Anna brings them closer together. She focuses on a small group of characters, but they’re so clarified that they seem like very real people. Perkins pays a lot of attention to detail in such a short novel. This book shows what love can do to you in Paris. She made these series which shows the different characters point of view.Īnna and the French Kiss helped me visualize what Anna experiences when exploring Paris which is astonishing. The others are Lola and the Boy Next Door and Isla and the Happily Ever After. Anna and the French Kiss is one out of two series book she made. Fun fact, she and her husband, Jarrod, have every room of their house painted a different color of the rainbow.

Perkins was first a bookseller, and as a librarian, and now as a novelist and editor. She was born in South Carolina and attended universities in California and Georgia. Written by Stephanie Perkins who is a New York Times and international bestselling author of books for teenagers and for adults with teenage hearts. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with the french kiss she’s been waiting for? Unexpectedly her father is shipping her off to boarding school in Paris which she is not thrilled about – until she meets Etienne St. Anna can’t wait for her senior year in Atlanta, where she had a good job, a best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more.

The french kiss novel