how to behave in a crowd a novel camille bordas

While I’m delighted for her, I’m also bummed to see her go-as I’m guessing most of Chicago will be from the local acclaim she’s received (more on that later).Īs Bordas heads to Florida, How To Behave in a Crowd arrives in paperback on August 21. By the time she returned things got busy for both of us.Ī few months on, we got back in touch, when she shared the news that she had been hired as a creative writing professor at University of Florida in Gainesville. We met up at the latter for beers several times last fall before Camille returned to Paris for the winter holiday. We also shared as deep a love for the gourmand Parisian food and drink emporium Julhès as we do for the 1990s Chicago indie rock scene bar of choice, Rainbo Club. It turned out I once lived in spitting distance of her childhood home in Paris’ 10th arrondissement. Attending one of the events for How To Behave in a Crowd and saying hello to the author afterward was inevitable. I write fiction, but I’m also a French scholar, and lived in Paris for several years. Her novel was brilliant, my bookseller sister said, while another writer friend explained that Camille was not only French, she also grew up in Paris and had two novels published in French before she began writing in English. I learned she was a Chicago resident, and friends swore to me that I had to meet her. I didn’t know who Camille Bordas was until last summer, when her novel How To Behave in a Crowd was published.

How to behave in a crowd a novel camille bordas