I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion. 
 Madeleine has spent her life trying to do what her mother and society expect of her - always dieting because she isn't naturally thin like her friends, giving up her art and dreams of going to an art college, and even marrying a man she doesn't love because they look perfect together on paper. While home visiting her mother, Madeleine discovers a trunk filled with her grandmother's old journals from 1924. Margie, Madeleine's grandmother, had seemed "old and stiff and formal to a fault" to Madeleine as a child, but as she reads the journals, she discovers that as a young woman, Margie felt much the same way Madeleine feels: She wanted to be a writer and not just settle down with a man she doesn't love because it makes good business sense. Margie actually gets to experience the life she dreams of in Paris for a few months, and the story jumps back and forth between Margie in 1924 and Madeleine in 1999. 
 Margie's and Madeleine's stories were similar but each their own, and I enjoyed them both. I would love to have known more about Margie's life after she had to return to the U.S. to marry and raise her daughter - was she able to keep her dreams alive in at least some small way? I agree with some of the other reviewers that this book is quite different from The Weird Sisters, but they are both really good. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys women's fiction, historical fiction, and stories set in Paris.