ADÈLE ROBINSON’S SON has inherited her husband’s mouth, which is shaped like a marzipan sweet. How sweet. Except it’s not, or at least she isn’t. This despite the fact that she presents an iteration of the picture-perfect, all-possessing Parisian wife: she’s a reporter at a newspaper; her husband is a surgeon; they live in an […]
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