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Title details for Waiting for Bojangles by Olivier Bourdeaut - Available

Waiting for Bojangles

by Olivier Bourdeaut
Regan Kramer
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An "oddball fairy tale" (The New York Times)—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 and his parents dance each night to Nina Simone's mellifluous classic "Mister Bojangles." As his mother, mesmerizing and unpredictable, descends deeper into her own mind, 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 his epic love story with his wife—Waiting for Bojangles is a "lighthearted and yet sorrowful tale" (San Francisco Chronicle) that will stay with you long after the final page.

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  • Release date

    March 19, 2019

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781508280453
      • File size: 106565 KB
      • Duration: 03:42:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Listeners follow the story of a quirky and eccentric family as seen through the eyes of an unnamed boy and the journals of his father. Set in France and Spain during the second half of the twentieth century, this touching tale of deep love and growing mental illness is liberally sprinkled with rhyme. The narration by Gibson Frazier allows the rhymes to appear naturally to the listener, without emphasis or poetic intonation. His laid-back narration is the perfect match for this whimsical journey because it allows the wit and wackiness of both the story and the writing style to shine as the listener follows the journey from eccentricity to madness. The translation from the original French version appears not to have lost any of the richness of the author's writing. K.J.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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