Anna and the French Kiss

     I have recently read Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.  Anna and the French Kiss is about a 17 year old girl named Anna who moves to Paris for her senior year.  Anna has never truly been in love, and when she meets charming Etienne St. Clair, she is utterly unprepared.  In this book she learns to understand, and even trust her feelings.  No one can pass up love in the most romantic city in the world.
     When Anna first arrives in Paris, she wants to go home, to the place that is comfortable,  She wants to go back to her kind-of boyfriend who she doesn't feel anything for.  Anna wants to go home to her best friend Bridgette, she wants to go back to everything she knows.  When she meets a girl, Meredith, Anna thinks that she might have a new friend.  While in Meredith's room, who has paper and picture covered walls and things everywhere, Anna tells Meredith that she wished that she could have a room like hers but she thinks to herself 'I need clean walls and a clean desktop and everything put way in its right place at all times.'  When the author wrote this, I think that she was hinting more at the fact that Anna likes everything the same.Anna was upset about the move, about the fact that she wasn't being put away in the right spot.
     As the book progresses, Anna becomes more open to change and people.  She becomes best friends with St. Clair, the heartthrob of the school and Merediths crush.  When Anna is falling in love with him, she comes to realize that home is not just a place or a house, it's the people within.  Spoiler alert.  In the end of the book she says she has finally come home, referring to Etienne, her new boyfriend.  This made me think a lot about how certain people are home to me, and I couldn't feel comfortable without them.  Anna unlocked a thought for me, and I loved this book.