Paris to the Moon

"Paris to the Moon" (2000, ISBN 0375758232, Random House) is a book of essays by Adam Gopnik. The stories detailed life in Paris, France by a North American transplant and how life is different. They include how the French do not obsess on physical fitness the way American and Canadian yuppies do.

Another story, called "The Rookie" details how Gopnik's child, taken to France as a baby, was growing up with no knowledge of baseball and Gopnik's attempt to explain the game to him through stories. This story was later recorded for the public radio program "This American Life" by Gopnik himself. The poignancy of the piece was lost when Gopnik moved back to the States giving his son the opportunity to actually grow up seeing actual baseball.