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.