In eighteen hilarious accounts, prize-winning humorist Scott Carpenter lifts the curtain on what passes for normal in Europe's most glorious capital, measuring it by the yardstick of the American Midwest.
In eighteen hilarious accounts, prize-winning humorist Scott Carpenter lifts the curtain on what passes for normal in Europe's most glorious capital, measuring it by the yardstick of the American Midwest.
At fifty-two, psychiatrist Philip Adler is divorced, alone, and gutted of passion. When a funeral draws him back to his ex-wife's homeland of France, the trip reunites him with a trauma he has struggled to forget: the brutal death of his teenage daughter fifteen years earlier. Prodded by his former brother-in-law and stirred by the unspent embers of his marriage, he embarks on a mission to resolve lingering questions about this past, hoping to...