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Author Bourdeaut, Olivier, 1980- author.

Title Waiting for Bojangles : a novel / Olivier Bourdeaut ; translated by Regan Kramer.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION BOURDEAUT    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  F BOURDEAUT, O.    Storage
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION BOURDEAU    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F BOURDEAUT    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-BOU    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F BOURDEAUT, O.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F BOURDEAUT OLIVIER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-BOURDEAUT    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description 160 pages ; 22 cm
Summary The 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.
Subject Mentally ill mothers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
France -- Paris. (OCoLC)fst01205283
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Fiction.
Added Author Kramer, Regan, translator.
Added Title En attendant Bojangles. English
ISBN 9781501145919 (hardcover)
1501145916 (hardcover)
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