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.