AGE: 58
OCCUPATION: Owner, Cottonwood Books
HOMETOWN: Baton Rouge
Behind a striped wall of blue mosaic tiles near the Perkins Road overpass, Cottonwood Books is about to burst. Wall-to-wall shelves sag under the weight of countless books. Even more are piled up on stools and in the corners.
This is home to Danny Plaisance, who sits behind the front counter with Elton John’s “Benny and the Jets” softly playing on his small plastic radio.