A Room With No View: Surreal Travel. Sharp Comedy. A Little Wine. A Lot of Heart. - Paperback

This isn't your typical travel memoir. A Room With No View is a mostly-true comedic novella about closing a big tech deal and being sent to Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympics-despite being nearly 40, not speaking French, and having zero stamps in her passport.

What unfolds is a hilarious, heartfelt, wine-soaked fish-out-of-water story that blends personal chaos with global spectacle. Between rebooting cutting-edge tech, battling Olympic-level anxiety, and accidentally living inside a Parisian shopping mall after a catastrophic Airbnb catfish, the trip becomes part work assignment, part identity crisis, and part existential spiral that repeatedly asks: why does this look nothing like Emily in Paris?

Set over one surreal week, the novella captures the absurdity of navigating professional pressure in a foreign city at full-volume chaos mode. Meetings collide with meltdowns. Ambition clashes with jet lag. Confidence wobbles somewhere between a croissant and a glass of Chardonnay. Paris is stunning, unforgiving, and entirely uninterested in your personal growth arc.

Written with sharp wit and a buttery splash of self-awareness, A Room With No View explores the messy truth about adulthood-what it feels like to chase success while secretly wondering if everyone else has figured out something you missed. It's about showing up unprepared, pushing through discomfort, and discovering that sometimes the most meaningful moments happen when the plan completely falls apart.