Florida
A middle-class American family. Domineering mother, listless father and beautiful daughter. Nothing foreshadows the powerful hurricane that will change their lives. There's everything in sunny Florida except maybe common sense. The world of Mini Miss pageants, in which the ambitious mother introduces her child, over the years disgusts the girl, deprived of a normal childhood, and leads her to rebellion. As mother and daughter's strong personalities collide, their paths diverge, only to be reunited under tragic circumstances. The rebellious teenager's efforts to erase her beauty take a toll on her health, and she belatedly realizes that her attempts at revenge lead to self-destruction.
Written by the brilliant pen of Olivier Bourdeaut, Florida is a novel about the enormous damage that excessive ambition often causes, and how beauty can become a curse.
Olivier Bourdeaut
Before he wrote En attendant Bojangles (Waiting for Bojangles) in seven weeks at his parents’ home, 35-year-old Olivier Bourdeaut had "failed at just about everything else".
His last job was as a switchboard operator for an educational publishing company, "surrounded by all the books that tortured me as a child". Like the boy narrator in his book, Bourdeaut was always getting his letters and numbers mixed up. But in the three months since his beautifully written tale of a boy growing up in a bohemian home where unopened bills pile up like mountain ranges in the hall, he has won several of France’s top literary awards and his book has risen to the top of the bestseller lists.
His story has charmed critics and public alike.
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