the last book I ever read (Rebecca Makkai's The Great Believers, excerpt four)

from National Book Award Finalist The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai:

He nodded, pulled a slim laptop from the bag at his feet and, in one fluid motion, opened it and clicked to start the video. That a French café would have Wi-Fi seemed wrong. In her mind, Paris was always 1920. It was always Aunt Nora’s Paris, all tragic love and tubercular artists.