Bender at the Bon Parisien (A Novel)
Description
Two Americans in Paris spend an all-nighter in their hotel dive bar in this quirky shell-game mystery.
Peter and Janie are having one chaotic night. Several visitors from the neighborhood have joined them in the Bon Parisien: Trudel, an opera singer, Fleuse, a clockmaker, and Jacque Pistache, a street magician. But no one is there by accident. As the night evolves, histories are revealed that suggest a mysterious treasure with an unreal backstory might be hidden somewhere in the bar. How much does each stranger know? What aren’t they telling the Americans?
Peter and Janie are having one chaotic night. Several visitors from the neighborhood have joined them in the Bon Parisien: Trudel, an opera singer, Fleuse, a clockmaker, and Jacque Pistache, a street magician. But no one is there by accident. As the night evolves, histories are revealed that suggest a mysterious treasure with an unreal backstory might be hidden somewhere in the bar. How much does each stranger know? What aren’t they telling the Americans?
