After the success of his first two novels, Not So Good and Not Better, Arnaud Le Guilcher returns to his disenchanted hero, a magnificent loser, in this hilarious and surreal poetic comedy that questions blood ties and our connection to the world.

Our (anti-)hero is a Frenchman exiled in the middle of nowhere in the US. Right after his wife leaves him, taking with her their two-year-old daughter but leaving behind their teenage goth hacker son, he gets a call from a notary. His grandfather, who he thought was already dead, has actually just hit the hay and a mysterious inheritance awaits him in the French alps.Accompanied by his best friend and his Satanist son, he makes his way to Saint Colombard des Izands, a picturesque village nestled at the foot of the Savoy mountains. There, he will discover that the contents of his inheritance smell like forgotten goat cheese: he is now the head of “Cabri au Lait,” a cheese production company on the edge of collapse. Nothing has been going well since wolves in the area decimated all the local sheep. The notary also tells him about his grandfather’s past. Completely unbeknownst to our hero, his grandpa was a former Nazi collaborator who took refuge in South America, then founded the cheese company on his return to France. And in his fascist grandpa’s gloomy alpine manor, among all the Inca statues, dictator get-ups, and bottled vintages, he finds an incredible strongroom full of video surveillance screens. Between 2 or 3 sheep sabotages and a few confrontations with enraged wolves, our hero finds himself with an unexpected chance at finding his wife and daughter. Joined by his transvestite half-brother, devastated by the absence of his wife and daughter, mortified by the revelations of his family tree, always followed closely by the strong desire to drink, but full of the best intentions in the world, will our fortuitous adopted Yankee change things for the better? Certainly. Because as Nietzsche could well have said at a dinner party, “When absurdity doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger."