<p><strong>When life gives you lemons, make citron pressé </strong></p> <p>When Francophiles Don and Mindy Wallace received an offer for a house on a tiny French island, they jumped at the chance, buying it almost sight unseen. What they found when they arrived was a building in ruin, and it wasn't long before their lives resembled it. Plagued by emergency repairs, a stock market crash, and very exasperated French neighbors, the Wallace's could have accepted their fate. Instead, they embraced it. <em>The French House</em> is the delightfully amusing and picturesque memoir about a family who seized life, rose from the rubble, and built themselves a home away from home.</p>