Summary
A lanky, sun-scorched Iowan heiress—reared amid squealing hogs and prairie wind—steps off the Channel ferry with a battered valise and a Francophone lilt sharpened on the boulevards of Montparnasse. Jacqueline Laurentine Boggs, equal parts savage candor and barn-yard perfume, invades the frigid, tapestry-lined manor of the feather-boa English gentry, whose marble-floored drawing rooms have never known mud. What follows is a slow-motion collision of odors, vowels, and social fictions: the girl who once slopped pigs now teaches titled twits how to breathe through the mouth while she dismantles their ancestral pecking order with a grin that splits like ripe watermelon. By the final reel, teacups lie in shards, corset stays snap like icicles, and the household’s brittle hierarchies have been pulped into something almost—almost—human.
Synopsis
Jacqueline Laurentine Boggs, the daughter of an American hog farmer, is schooled in France and comes to stay with an English family. There she brings a dose of reality to her snobby hosts.
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