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I Am Finally, Finally French: My Accidental Life in Brittany
RELEASE DATE: October 28, 2025
A hilarious and heartfelt memoir of embracing life in rural France.
At 47, 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 500 people. Thus began Mark’s bumbling, hilarious journey adapting to life in rural France…read more
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I Am Finally, Finally French: My Accidental Life in Brittany
July 17, 2025 by Janet Hulstrand for France Today
Those who have read Mark Greenside’s two previous memoirs about his part-time life in Brittany, will enjoy this return to familiar territory as he stumbles his way, linguistically and otherwise, through a series of adventures—and misadventures—in his little Breton village…read full review
July 28, 2025
Adrian Leeds, Jazzy Times
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(not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living
Every year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas–filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK, slightly daunted)...read more
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Review in Hungarian for the Hungarian edition here
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I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do)
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside reluctantly travels, eats of the crêpes, and finds a second life...read more
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I Saw a Man Hit His Wife
Collected short stories by Mark Greenside
A contemporary American male looks at relationships in a Feminist America in this revealing collection of stories.
Author Mark Greenside states that he "came face-to-face with feminism — and lost." These stories give us a male perspective on the world in which we now find ourselves — a place where we're still defining what it means to be male and female. In the title story, a woman presses the sexual limits with her live-in lover, whose reluctance to cross certain boundaries...read more
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The Night at the End of the Tunnel or Isaiah Can You See?
It was the best of the worst of times, the worst of the best of times, the beginning of the end of the beginning. That's how this story begins. It's late 70's, early 80's, New York City, and nothing works. No place is safe. Porn is everywhere. The streets are filthy, and the subways are worse. Trust is committing suicide--love is abused, and institutions and individuals are corrupt, corrupted, or corruptible. The City and country are disintegrating. Enter two of the unlikeliest characters you've ever met--think Charlie Brown meets Mr. Natural, or Alfred E. Neuman in The Heart of Darkness. All these guys want to do is survive, and they do--but in a way neither they nor you can imagine.
The Night at the End of the Tunnel, or Isaiah Can You See? is a dystopian picaresque. Hold onto your hopes. They, along with everything good, are about to be taxed.
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