- Summary
- "For 30 years, a typed-written transcript sat tucked away amongst a stack of old notebooks and photo albums, written for the world, but read only by a few. The book's author, a young 94-year-old Nicole Galloy Hays dusted off the pages and submitted the transcript for publication from her son's residence in Kirkland, Washington, near Seattle. However, Kirkland is not really her home. Her home is actually 6000 miles due east of Seattle in France between Villemomble and the picturesque town of Cannes. You see, she has become Americanized, but her soul is pure French. This is the autobiography of a young French girl growing up in occupied France during the Second World War who becomes proficient in English following the liberation of Paris in 1944; proficient enough to be hired by allied forces as one of the youngest French translators assigned to The Nuremberg Trials. Forty years later she too would find herself incarcerated, awaiting trial. Her marriage to a young GI put her at odds with the country she loved. With one foot in California and the other in France, her life was torn between two worlds. Throughout her life, she would vacillate back and forth between wealth and poverty; love and loneliness; family and friends; freedom and captivity. In France they call it "Assise entre deux chaises." In America they refer to it as being 'Sitting between Two Chairs'"--Cover, page 4.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Hays, Nicole Galloy, author.
- Published
- [Place of publication not identified] : Nicole Galloy Hays, [2020]
- Locale
- France
Germany
