There’s no place like home – if you can afford Bay Area prices
Diane Johnson takes on an elusive subject in her latest trenchant transatlantic comedy of manners: Happiness.
“Happiness was like one of those floaters in your eye that you can never focus on, intangible and fleeting,” observes her pragmatic heroine, who after 20 years of marriage to a charming but chronically unfaithful Frenchman has decided it’s time to move back to her native San Francisco.
With “Lorna Mott Comes Home,” Johnson returns to the same terrain covered in her beloved trio of novels about American expats living in France – “Le
