![]() Instead of a scolding, she dangles before him a story she’s never even told her son, about a valuable necklace that disappeared during the Nazi occupation of France.Īnd so a madcap adventure is set into motion, one that leads Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor from Miami to New York and LA to Paris and across France until they converge at the estate of Guy de Maupassant, author of the classic short story “The Necklace.” He wakes to her jovially slapping him across the face. ![]() In the midst of all this semi-merriment, Victor passes out in the mother-of-the-groom’s bedroom. ![]() They soon slip back into old roles: Victor loves Kezia. Now at the tail end of their twenties, they arrive completely absorbed in their own lives-Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry designer in Manhattan Nathaniel the former literary cool kid, selling his wares in Hollywood and the Eeyore-esque Victor, just fired from a middling search engine. Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. ![]() Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the much-anticipated first novel from the writer David Sedaris calls “perfectly, relentlessly funny.” ![]() National Bestseller and a New York Times editor's choice. ![]()
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