Rising and Aloft -- Air France -- Paris in Recollection -- The Insurance Salesman Armand Marteau -- Franc̦ois Ehrenshtamm, Philosophe -- This Jack Person -- Writing a Jingle in Sait-Germain-en-Laye -- Jacqueline at Sparta -- The Past Upwells -- The Policeman Is Your Friend -- A Million Swimming Pools -- Amina Belkacem -- A Thousand Lawyers -- Lights Corruscating Through the Dusk -- Touching Down -- Blood Will Tell -- DNA -- Cathérine and David, Franc̦ois -- Jacqueline's Photograph -- 1944 -- The Music Lesson -- Loyal à Mort -- The Sun Comes Out for Armand Marteau -- Spring Fire and Smoke -- As Light and Warmth Put France at Ease -- If, at Its End, Your Life Takes on the Attributes of Art -- The Patient, Barely Alive, Had Collapsed on the RER -- Élodi Alone -- August -- Amina -- On the Grand Terrace at Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Summary:
Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. He forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.
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