"Use my mother's house in the South of France," he said. "You'll love it," he said. Little did she know that the house was an unheated, pigeon-infested ruin embedded in a charming bastide village whose Medieval square was overflowing with bizarre and comical characters. Will l'Americaine survive her adult "gap year" in France? In the spirit of "Under the Tuscan Sun" and "A Year in Provence," "Pigeon French" follows the comical misadventures and personal discoveries of a city woman (and her cat) experiencing the pleasure and discomfort of life in a foreign setting.