From the author of Le Divorce and Le Mariage, a comedy of contemporary manners, morals, exes, and motherhood (past, present, and future). Small, pretty, high-strung, Lorna Mott Dumas is the epitome of a successful woman—lovely grandchildren, good health, international career, second marriage in France—so why after 20 years is she headed back to San Francisco? And how will she handle all the changes since she left? With her large cast, all seeking the precarious balance of happiness and anxiety, contentment and striving, love and sex, Diane Johnson is our Edith Wharton of modern expat life.

"Johnson returns with undimmed joie de vivre to the delicious Francophile vein she mined so successfully in her National Book Award finalist Le Divorce…. Doing what she does best, Johnson shows us why she's been compared to writers like Henry James, Jane Austen, and Voltaire."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)