Used book – Chicago, I'll Be Back, GISÈLE BIENNE

Most importantly, enjoy your stay in the United States... Yes, all right, Sylvie replies, as she always does. But she won't discover America by playing bridge and tennis, or by staying locked in her room with her English dictionary, let alone by dating backward and pimply high school students. The 17-year-old Parisian, selected for an exchange program in a pilot high school in Chicago, eventually begins to doubt: is this really American life, the one offered to her by her well-to-do host family? It's 1964, and the United States is in the midst of social upheaval. Martin Luther King has a dream. Students are rising up to defend the civil rights of Black people, working in ghettos and looking for volunteers. Sylvie is eager to join. She doesn't want to miss out on that America. The America of the poor, the marginalized, the excluded, or the artists, whom she approaches without prejudice. She is about to discover another world, several worlds...