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041 1 _aeng
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092 _aBourdeau
_bOliver
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aBourdeaut, Olivier,
_d1980-
_eauthor.
_9392919
240 1 0 _aEn attendant Bojangles.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aWaiting for Bojangles :
_ba novel /
_cOlivier Bourdeaut ; translated by Regan Kramer.
250 _aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c2019.
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a160 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
520 _aThe runaway international bestseller-shortlisted for one of France's highest literary prizes-a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways. A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment, where the unopened mail rises in a tower by the door, the bird acts like a member of the family, and his parents dance to Nina Simone's mellifluous classic Mister Bojangles. As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into mental illness, it is up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and, when that fails, happy. Fleeing Paris for a country home in Spain, they come to understand that some of the most radiant people bear the heaviest burdens. Told from the perspective of a young boy who idolizes his parents and from George's journals, detailing the epic love story with his wife, this charming, heartbreaking gem of a novel will stay with you long after the final page. As we read, their love story becomes ours.
650 0 _aMentally ill mothers
_vFiction.
_9291659
650 0 _aFamilies
_vFiction.
_93570
651 0 _aParis (France)
_vFiction.
_92358
700 1 _aKramer, Regan,
_etranslator.
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994 _aC0
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