French Exit by Patrick deWitt

Frances Price lives on the Upper East Side with her grown son, Malcolm. When she's told that the family's estate is bankrupt, she and Malcolm decamp to Paris, staying in a friend's apartment. French Exit recounts the satiric adventures of mother and son and their cat, Small Frank, in the City of Light. The reader meets both eccentric old friends and new in this tale full of biting humor, emotion, and excess. Perfect for readers of Michael Dahlie and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces.