Set in the sapphist salons of Gertrude Stein and Natalie Barney, where Alice B Toklas, Djuna Barnes, Romaine Brooks and Sylvia Beach define the modernist avante-garde, An American in Paris introduces Henrietta Adamas, recently graduated and newly minted as a foreign correspondent assigned to report on the burgeoning artistic elite of Paris. In the process, she discovers romantic intrigue, along with an international art theft that implicates none other than Picasso, while inventing for herself a charmed life that could not be imagined in her American past.