Finalist, Scotiabank Giller PrizeFinalist, Oregon Book Awards: Ken Kesey Award for FictionFinalist, Forest of Reading Evergreen AwardInternational BestsellerA Globe and Mail Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Book of the YearA Chatelaine Book of the YearA Now Magazine Book of the YearAn Amazon. com Best Book of the MonthA New York Public Library Best Book of the YearA Book of the YearFrances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the Price's aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self-destruction and economic ruin - to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, and the inimitable Mme. Reynard, aggressive houseguest and dementedly friendly American expat. Brimming with pathos and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners,' a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute. | French Exit by Patrick deWitt, Paperback | Indigo Chapters