'Scattered like croutons in a broth' is how Janet Flanner described her process of profiles, interviews and research preceding each article for 'The New Yorker', published under the name Genet.
Letters to her intimate friend, edited by the latter, Natalia Danesi Murray, delve behind the facade of Genet, revealing her unedited reaction to the Nuremberg trials, the McCarthy witch hunts, the rise, reign and fall of Charles de Gaulle, and the Paris student riots of 1968.
But mostly, this collection is about an enduring friendship between two women from two different cultures, living on two continents and longing for each other's company.
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