Status Updates From How to Behave in a Crowd

Anyone with any connection to academic culture is going to recognize this world and how absurd it is. I love this book and this narrator so much!

I love this family, especially Isidore. They're intellectuals, with Simone obnoxiously overconfident about it and Isidore the only one who doesn't take himself too seriously. Also, the attitude is so much French superiority, and when that gets combined with the matter-of-fact-ness of a 111-year-old woman (a neighbor), the candor is hilarious.

Considering that I just finished a book about a musician dying of ALS and the book I'm planning to read AFTER this is literally called White Fragility, I think a novel from the point of view of a middle-class French preteen is probably just the right amount of emotional engagement I need right now. I like Dory/Izzy/Isidore, and the family dynamic is believable.