France bewitched by ‘Bojangles,’ a book full of joy and tears
Apr 12, 2016
PARIS (AFP) -- It is the literary sensation of the year in France. A first novel by a dyslexic author that has had readers crying -- and laughing out loud -- on the Paris metro. Before he wrote “Waiting for Bojangles” in seven weeks at his parents' home, 35-year-old Olivier Bourdeaut had “failed at just about everything else in my life,” he told AFP. “I wish I was joking,” said the failed estate agent whose last job was a switchboard operator for an educational publishing company, “surrounded by