Reasonable accommodations

Paul Stern is faced with this dilemma:

* His wife is depressed and decided to "absented himself" from his own life for some time and is making him become foreign
* His father, hitherto bigoted and tidy, inherited the colossal fortune of his worst enemy (his brother) and decides at the same time to don life of it to better revenge for his own failed life.
* His children themselves become parents and are trying somehow to make their own life.

Rather than face all this directly, Paul prefers to accept a job offer in the United States and therefore settle some time away from family. It is there that he will meet his wife twice, but 30 years younger and still full of life.

Through these portraits prepared by Jean-Paul Dubois, one discovers that one has never actually want to hear or see: our parents were they happy together? ; the values ​​instilled by our parents, are really up for what they believed? ; the life one has chosen does actually make sense for us? and for our loved ones?.

This is what I have mostly learned from this book. We also have a very good press reviews of Alexander, the father of Paul, on the French presidential election and the events that followed. And an overview of the meanders of the Hollywood machine.

My memorable sentence from the book: "I wondered why we never did what we thought our life."