Simon & Schuster
March 2019
On Sale: March 19, 2019
Featuring: Louise; George
176 pages ISBN: 1501145916 EAN: 9781501145919 Kindle: B07GNVQ47T Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The runaway international bestsellerβshortlisted for one of Franceβs highest literary prizesβa 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 Simoneβs mellifluous classic βMister Bojangles.β 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 Georgeβs 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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