"At forty-seven, 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 five hundred people. Thus began Mark's bumbling, hilarious journey of adapting to life in rural France ... 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"--