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Simon & Schuster
March 2019
On Sale: March 19, 2019
Featuring: Louise; George
176 pages
ISBN: 1501145916
EAN: 9781501145919
Kindle: B07GNVQ47T
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Literature and Fiction Literary | Coming of Age
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.
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