I Am Finally Finally FrenchMark GreensideLabel: Skyhorse PublishingDescription: A hilarious and heartfelt memoir of embracing life in rural France. At 47 Mark Greenside a glass-is-half-empty native New Yorker living in California unwillingly went to Brittany and to his great amazement and surprise fell in love with the place and its people. Then because love makes you crazy and do crazy things he borrowed money from his mom and bought a 120‑year‑old farmhouse in Plobien a village of 500 people. Thus began Mark’s bumbling hilarious journey adapting to life in rural France. From navigating unwritten rules about touching tomatoes at the market to hosting dinners for discerning friends every mishap and cultural and linguistic misunderstanding—of which there were many—became a lesson in resilience perseverance compliance and humility. Now three decades later Mark reflects on the unforeseen joys and challenges of growing older in the place he calls home every summer. With his trademark wit and self‑awareness he reveals how his life in Plobien—and his friends’ and neighbors’ enduring patience and kindness—have shaped him into something he never thought he’d become: truly deeply finally French. Both a love letter to Brittany and a meditation on life’s unpredictability I Am Finally Finally French is an invitation to laugh learn and savor the beauty of embracing change—no matter how daunting it seems.
