![]() Online dating only seems to make the world worse. She spent most of her remaining years alone or in unfulfilling relationships, which Paul implicitly fears might happen to him. Like Paul, she divorced in mid-life after a long marriage. Amid all of this emotional turmoil, Paul visits his ailing mother in the final months of her life. Left unspoken but lingering in the background is Paul's divorce after a three decade relationship with his high school sweetheart. The room that belonged to his now-18-year-old daughter is mostly unused, especially once she decides to move overseas. ![]() A swing set sits idle, slowly rusting beside a half-dead tree Paul planted with his then-five-year-old daughter. Paul is in his mid-50s, a successful cartoonist with an achy shoulder living in a house he once shared with his wife and daughter. Paul at Home is Quebecois superstar Michel Rabagliati's most personal book yet, a riveting, emotional, and frequently amusing take on the losses and loneliness of being closer to retirement than to university. ![]()
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