Her father demands that she come to Paris with him over break and work on her thesis there while he sends her mother to a much needed rehab facility.
That is until he gets wind that Andi is not going to graduate unless she completes her senior thesis, which she could care less about. They both have never allowed themselves to get over his death and to make matters worse, her father, a genius Nobel Prize winning scientist, has moved on and is never home. Her mother is the same way she hides in her brownstone prolifically painting pictures of her dead son and not really interacting with Andi, let alone the outside world. She's not really living, but rather going through the motions ever since her younger brother, Truman, died. She is a talented musician who is seriously depressed and only finds happiness in her music. Yes, she does attend a prestigious private school and is overflowing with mandatory teenage angst, but she is much more than that. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages-until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present."Īndi is not your stereotypical rich teenager. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want-and couldn’t escape. PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes.
She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Goodreads says, " BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge.
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