A "frank and wry, mad and graceful" (Slate) true story about getting dumped, and getting over it. When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Gr goire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without warning, five years before. And he couldn't have guessed why she was calling: not to say she was sorry, not to explain why she'd vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party...