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 risqué 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.
