Paris in Winter combines drawings by American artist and writer David Coggins with stories about his family’s annual New Year’s visits to Paris. This memoir of poetic, lighthearted vignettes highlights the family’s passion for art and food, fashion and social life. Family rituals—from having lunch each January at Le Grand Véfour to haunting antique shops and seeking out-of-the-ordinary spots, like a little known garden or a gypsy circus or obscure museum — are interspersed with serendipitous moments —hearing Bono sing Happy Birthday to a friend in a bistro, adopting an abandoned lap dog, and just enjoying street life.

Coggins’s ink and watercolor drawings capture classic Paris scenes as well as family and friends against the backdrop of the elegant city in winter. Across cafés and hotels, apartments and galleries, the family mixes with a lively group of Parisian and international actors, designers, writers, and students. Coggins weaves in fascinating bits of the city’s history and artistic lore, but the book’s main theme is his family’s long-time love of Paris.

To be published in fall of 2015 by powerHouse Books, New York.