Of The Furies, Fernanda Eberstadt's last novel, Alexandra Jacobs wrote in the New York Observer thatit "veers pretty close to genius . . . Eberstadt is an expert, sensual, and at times truly breathtaking conjurer of New York City." With Rat, Eberstadt has found a new setting she knows well, the South of France, and the story she tells is original, powerful, and heartrendingabout a child's search for a father she has never known. Rat is fifteen-year-old...