I thought this book was wonderful! It has mixed reviews but I don't really care about that, I only care about what I think. 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. Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation, but he notices things the others don't and asks questions they fear to ask. 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. She's already put Isidore to work on her biography. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, older than Isidore by eighteen months, expects a great career as a novelist. Berenice, Aurore, and Leonard are on track to have doctorates by age twenty-four. Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town.
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