"From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"-- August 1949. Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. Socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother’s expectations that she make a brilliant match, she has one year to herself to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light. She strikes up a romance with a young writer who shares her love of literature and passion for culture. But France is a fragile place still haunted by the Occupation: Paris has become a nest of spies, suspicion, and betrayal. Communism is anathema in America, but an active movement in France. This political environment will shape her life-- and that of her future husband. -- adapted from jacket Provided by publisher.