Foreign Bodies

Pulitzer Prize finalist Cynthia Ozick¿s fiction has been awarded multiple O. Henry Prizes. In Foreign Bodies, Ozick crafts a remarkable retelling of Henry James¿ The Ambassadors¿deftly using its plot, yet boldly infusing the novel with an all new place, time, and meaning. It¿s 1952, and middle-aged Bea Nightingale reluctantly agrees to fly to Paris to help convince her estranged runaway nephew to return to his family. But Bea¿s experiences abroad will change her forever.