This novel's protagonist is lectured about responsibility by his Aunt Emily after he proposes marriage to his mentally unstable step-cousin Kate during Mardi Gras.
One character in this novel claims that the happiest moment in her life occurred on the bus ride home from the car crash that killed her fiancé. The last section before this novel's epilogue ends with the protagonist looking at an African-American man's forehead as the man emerges from a church on Ash Wednesday, to see if he received ashes. One scene in this novel juxtaposes the conversation around a dinner table with one character explaining why she deliberately took a non-lethal dose of pentobarbital. The protagonist of this novel engages in an existential quest that he calls "the (*) search", and has an affair with his secretary Sharon Kincaid. This novel's protagonist is lectured about responsibility by his Aunt Emily after he proposes marriage to his mentally unstable step-cousin Kate during Mardi Gras. For 10 points, name this novel about the cinema-loving New Orleans stockbroker Binx Bolling, by Walker Percy.
One character in this novel claims that the happiest moment in her life occurred on the bus ride home from the car crash that killed her fiancé.
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