![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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