This experience is a kind of brief RETURN TO PARIS preamble to the book, as he sets out to By Colette Rossant return to his memories and under- (Atria Books; 227 pp.; $22) stand the truth of his life. Many people see his success and e warned: assume he has led a charmed existence, Reading Return "that I had the world all figured out, that to Paris invites a I'm this stable, secure person. This is a diet. The author, way of saying I'm not who you may have Colette Rossant, a been thinking I've been all these years." noted food writer, The author writes candidly about enriches her recently his own lack of compassion toward his published second mem- father, telling of moments of cruelty. oir (Memoirs of a Lost Egypt was her Yet for all his rejection, he managed to first) with recipes rich in butter and meet the subway every day and was at cream. Merely reviewing the ingredients his father's side during the hospitaliza- adds pounds. Mais quel plaisir! tions that grew in frequency. Rossant, daughter of an Egyptian There are moments of connection, father and a French mother, began her almost tenderness, as Nuland got older lifelong fascination with food while and his father grew feebler. His father living with her affluent Sephardic was alive to see his Yale-trained son Jewish paternal grandparents in Cairo. named chief resident Despite her father's Jewish heritage, "My triumph was his reward for all Rossant was enrolled in the Convent the bitterness he had suffered over the of the Sacred Heart. years, for the hours of despair, and for Her mother, a convert to enduring in the face of sickness, pes- Catholicism, is oblivious to her daugh- simism, and even death. This news of ter's loneliness. Colette finds solace with mine was testimony that he had not the nuns and the family cook, Ahmet. failed in America," Nuland writes. After World War II, her mother, now His father died soon after that. — Sandee Brawarsky SUMMER READING on page 70 .o 00 Doorwall Replacement Glass Standard 6 ft. size 34" x 76" Installed B senator from New York and a poten- tial presidential candidate in 2008, is far less complimentary about Arafat, at one point blasting the Palestinian leader for the failed 2000 peace talks with then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. "Unfortunately, while Barak came to Camp David to make peace, Arafat did not," she says bluntly "The tragic events of the last few years show what a terrible mistake Arafat made." Clinton also calls a now-infamous 1999 encounter with Arafat's wife, Suha, the "worst instance" of mis- takes she made during her campaign for the Senate, which she launched even before she left the White House. During an official trip to Israel and the West Bank, Clinton attend- ed an event where Suha spoke before her in Arabic and made an "outra- geous remark suggesting that Israel had used poison gas to control Palestinians," Clinton writes. Arafat's remark was not translated into English, Clinton says, and when the first lady stepped to the podium to speak, the two women embraced --- and the New York tabloids played the story big. "Had I been aware of her hateful words, I would have denounced them on the spot," she says, repeat- mg assertions she made at the time. In her book, Clinton recalls sever- al trips to Poland in the late 1990s that took her to Nazi death camps and the Warsaw Jewish community. The visit, she writes, prompted memories of meeting a survivor with numbers tattooed on his arm when she was a child in Illinois, and to think of her maternal grand- mother's second husband, Max Rosenberg. "I was horrified that someone like him could have been murdered just because of his religion," she says. Clinton, who spends a of of time explaining -- in the book and in interviews --- why she stayed mar- ried to her husband, writes that it was a longtime Jewish friend and mentor, Sara Ehrman, to whom she long ago turned for advice about Bill. Ehrman, a Washington roommate of Clinton in the early 1970s during the Watergate era --- and later the Clinton White House liaison to the Jewish community --- tried to per- suade Hillary not to move to Arkansas to be with Bill. "Are you out of your mind?" Clinton recalls Ehrman asking. "Why on earth would you throw away your future?" 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