Switzy

David Hastings, a deteriorating scion of a wealthy family, sets out on a final voyage to Switzerland, where he has arranged to end his life at a clinic. The journey is deliberate and finite: dinner in London with his adult daughter, a reunion in France with an estranged friend, and then Zurich.

Knowing the date of his own death reorders everything for him — the last meal, the last night, the last light. Emma Cline builds the novel around that pressure, tracing an unraveling mind with a tone that is by turns darkly funny and unsparing.

Cline's third novel, following The Girls and The Guest.