![]() ![]() ![]() The book itself is not so much a story as a slice of life - a slice of about two years in the life of Isidore Mazal, or Dory as he is called, the youngest of six children living in a small French town with his family. ![]() Not only was it so interesting to be immersed in a culture I know very little about, there is also something very clean and direct about a narration from a child’s perspective - it is free from the convoluted thinking that adults tend to have. But once I started reading it, there were two main aspects to it that captured my attention and sustained it until the end: one, it is set in France and written by a French author (Camille Bordas’ previous books are in French but this one is in English) and two, it is a first person narration by a eleven year old boy. I typically pick up so many recommended books from the library that I don’t remember where I heard about this book - it’s not a best-selling or award-winning book that everyone knows about. ![]() After several unsuccessful attempts at trying to find a book that could sustain my interest, I finally managed to find and finish How to Behave in a Crowd. ![]()
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