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A disorderly literary romp in which Otto Pulaski, while in the course of a Covid-era Thanksgiving dinner at which he is an unwelcome family member, remembers, regrets, and relishes his moving and at times risque and violent history of how he learned French, as well as how, in the present, he is drawn to reconnect with family in the form of a curious and insistent grand-daughter with gender identity questions.

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An anti-memoir, Otto's story is grounded in truth and love and risky choices and challenging families, though rarely do facts get in the way. The reader is so much the better for it, traveling along with a grand storyteller who might be telling a whopper. Or maybe not. -Holly Lorincz, author of the bestselling Crown Heights. Otto Pulaski's zany characters sing indeed of real lives. Mix in as foreground the hellscape of a Thanksgiving in a family of divorce and remarriage, and you have the setting of this book. Reader, if you can then grieve with Otto as a philosopher over the anguish of a child bright if not brilliant, reaching out for life's mysteries, then this book is for you. I enjoyed it thoroughly. -Jay Zebrowski, former reporter, FORTUNE magazine. Tag along with Otto Pulaski on an eventful romp through life, from his coming of age to finding the wisdom of age. After a series of deftly recounted (mis)adventures, Otto finally finds his place in the family by offering a type of understanding that his own life's journey has made possible. -Emily Hackett, author of Ghost Years. A short, endearing tale of one man's linguistic coming-of-age. -Kirkus Reviews

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Wayne is a writer, climber, and skier. He and his wonderful wife share a modest home a block from the beach in Manzanita, Oregon. Learn more at wwgoss.com.

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