“He only wanted to live quietly, waiting for death to find his address.” Ferdinand is THE grumpy old man. His life has been a country song: wife left him, dog died, etc. What he doesn’t expect is a precocious young girl to move in upstairs and decide to make him her new project. She wants him to be happy and to live a better life (no easy feat mind you) and sets out to make it so, starting with getting him to clean his apartment! […]
Yes, I Do Feel All Out of Sorts
At the halfway point of reading Aurélie Valognes’s debut Out of Sorts (2016), my mind took me to Rose’s dream sequence in the Golden Girls’ season 1 episode “A Little Romance.” It was a farcical scene that brought on much laughter mostly because of the brilliance of the four lead actresses. As an audience member, I could follow along because the set up had been clear. I was in on the joke. That wasn’t the case when I got to the midpoint of Out of Sorts. I started to […]