A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent.
She teaches creative writing at the University of Florida MFA program in Gainesville..
Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker , her nonfiction in Chicago magazine.
How to Behave in a Crowd is her first novel written in English.
About the Author: Camille Bordas is the author of two previous books in her native French.
With How to Behave in a Crowd , Camille Bordas immerses readers in the interior life of a boy puzzled by adulthood and beginning to realize that the adults around him are just as lost.
Isidore\'s unstinting empathy, combined with his simmering anger, makes for a complex character study, in which the elegiac and comedic build toward a heartbreaking conclusion.
So when tragedy strikes the Mazal family, Isidore is the only one to recognize how everyone is struggling with their grief, and perhaps the only one who can help them--if he doesn\'t run away from home first.
But he notices things the others don\'t, and asks questions they fear to ask.
Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation.
The only time they leave their rooms is to gather on the old, stained couch and dissect prime-time television dramas in light of Aristotle\'s Poetics .
Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist--she\'s already put Isidore to work on her biography.
Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four.
He doesn\'t quite fit in.
Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town.
A witty, heartfelt novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent
