Azazel Jacobs

Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan: to die before the money ran out. But things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...

"Hot-tempered Echo Park slacker Rodolfo Cano enlists in the army to escape a meaningless existence with his free-spirited girlfriend Diaz. When his call-for service letter somehow winds up in the hands of another Rodolfo Cano, a quietly dignified loner who lives on a sailboat, their three lives intersect in odd and beautifully unexpected ways."--Container.

Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and his life, Mikey returns to his childhood home, a cluttered Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. His mother tells him he may stay as long as he wants. What begins as a respite from adult responsibility becomes a premature mid-life crisis. Re-installed in a house saturated with two generations of bric-a-brac evoking days gone by, Mikey starts to regress and drift back to an awkward youth...