Description: Julie Doucet's eagerly-anticipated fourth new book is set against the backdrop of an apartment building full of an idiosyncraticassortment of oddball neighbors. This autobiographical story begins as Julie and her boyfriend find a new apartment with cheap rent. What appears to be a promising move at first is offset when they meet a string of nutty neighbors: one ex-con "breaks out" of his apartment by smashing his own window; another man attempts to kill himself by stuffing his head in a gas oven. But perhaps the oddest person of all is the landlady herself, Madame Paul, who never fails to be both amused and excited by the ongoing events in her building. Boldly drawn and told from her wry, deadpan perspective, The Madame Paul Affair promises to be one of Julie Doucet's best novellas to date!

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