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What a treat to have this lazy Mother’s Day Sunday to capture some thoughts about this wonderful auto-fictional novel by Abdourahman A. Waberi :Pourquoi tu danses quand tu marches? (JC lattes, 2019)One day walking to school in Paris 5-year old Béa asks her Papa, Aden, why he dances when he walks. By “dances” she refers to his funny limp that favors his weak leg. To fully answer her, Aden must tell her the story of his childhood in Djibouti.Through his simple, soft and moving narrative he brings us all back with him to Djibouti in the late 1960s and 1970s,...

  What an amazing day at the Kensington Day of the Book! 🌟It was wonderful to see our French pavilion authors meet so many new readers! 🤩Merci to our participating authors for your positive energy and for being so supportive of each other and the bookstore! 🙏Merci beaucoup to all our amazing customers for shopping local and supporting local authors! 🙏❤️Merci to our team of Superstars Stéphanie and Sabrina and Aurélie for your incredible energy and hard work and smiles! 🙏🌟🌸🤩And a GRAND merci to Aurelie Breton for being our French Pavilion champion from start to finish and her incredible...

                        Born and raised in France to Moroccan immigrants, Amine discovers at his father’s funeral cassette tapes that he had sent home to his own father in Morocco, recounting his life, loves, work in the mines and factories of France. Amine comes to know his father for the first time through these tapes as in life he had been silent, distant, a stranger really. A beautiful tribute from a son to his father, and a window into the life of the “30 glorieuses” in post-war French reconstruction years and...

Don't haved a Valentine during this season of amour!?! Fall in love with an author instead!  We thought it would be fun to set you up with some eligible authors because a good one is alreays ready to sweep you off your feet.  Bonus: a literary crush is always acceptable, no matter your relationship status. Below are the authors who make us swoon with their similes, melt our hearts with their metaphors, and otherwise set our hearts aflutter.  Who will you fall for this Valentine's day!?   

Thank you so much to Binkady-Emmanuel Hié for sharing with our sold-out crowd the story behind his Visibles! —a tribute to 40 Black French historical figures—politicians, generals, musicians, poets and more —whose incredible accomplishments most of us have never heard of —until now!Just a few examples:Casimir Fidèle, a former slave who became a Master Chef, hôtelier and real estate mogul.Alice Mathieu-Dubois, daughter of a freed slave from Guyane, she was the first Black Frenchwoman to become a doctor.Jean Baptiste Belley-a slave from Gorée, Senegal who purchased his freedom and became the first Black Deputé Député, and part of the délégation...