![]() Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. ![]() ![]() Talented and precocious, she's come to terms with life's seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants-her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. But Renée has a secret: she furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. In short, she's everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. ![]() Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible-short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" ( Publishers Weekly). ![]()
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