By Belinda Bauer \u2013 <\/b>Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Death is usually a grim subject, but Belinda Bauer\u2019s new mystery is quite funny. Felix Pink, the protagonist of <\/span>Exit<\/span><\/i> (2020), volunteers as an Exiteer: he\u2019s part of an underground organization that supports people who are terminally ill and have decided to take their own lives. Strictly speaking, nothing Felix does is illegal. He simply sits with clients as they wait to die. They use a painless method suggested by his organization, and he keeps them company so their families will know they\u2019re not alone. Once they\u2019re gone, he spirits away the evidence of suicide. Felix is a 75-year-old widower. He\u2019s kind, conscientious, a neatnik and rule-follower. Most readers will be completely on his side as he goes on one of his missions, only to discover afterward that he\u2019s sat with the wrong person and is implicated in a death that may be a mistake\u2014or a murder. Bauer\u2019s typically twisty mystery provokes lots of chuckles, thanks to her delightfully skewed point of view. And as older readers become privy to Felix\u2019s thoughts about aging, they may wonder if Bauer has been reading their minds. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Death is usually a grim subject, but Belinda Bauer\u2019s new mystery is quite funny. Felix Pink, the protagonist of <\/span>Exit<\/span><\/i> (2020), volunteers as an Exiteer<\/span><\/p>\n