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La Campagne
Evan Dermond lands in rural France to settle the estate of a great-uncle he barely knew, and finds himself heir to a house he cannot afford, in a village that will not let him leave quietly.
Routines are what happen to me when a place stops being somewhere I'm leaving and starts being somewhere I am.
The Book
Mountain View, California: in one morning, Evan Dermond loses the Google career he gave five years to and the boyfriend he gave three. Then a notaire calls — a great-uncle he barely knew has died in rural France, leaving him a stone house he's never seen, a lifetime of ciphers, and an inheritance tax that wants fifty-five percent inside six months or the house sells out from under him. So he flies over with no French and no plan, starts pulling the one thread the old man left him, and finds that the secrecy was guarding something real. Funny and sharp with grief running under it — book-club fiction with a cipher at its heart.
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