“OH MY GOD.  I am so ridiculous,” says Imran Hashim’s heroine Annabelle Thong to herself at the end of her first class at the Sorbonne.  Belle is from Singapore, and brings some of the baggage of her upbringing with her to Paris, including an unfortunate combination of a Protestant work ethic and a Catholic sense of guilt.  Trying to reconcile what the Pope would say, what her mother tells her and what she feels is her duty as a patriotic Singaporean with the opportunities avai...