num_pages: 384
description: From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halperns novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create.People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit the public library in Riverton New Hampshire offers what she craves most: peace. Here no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget her problems.But that changes when fifteen-year-old home-schooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary. The judge throws the book at Sunnyliterallyassigning her to do community service at the library for the summer. Bright curious and eager to connect with someone other than her off-the-grid hippie parents Sunny coaxes Kit out of her self-imposed isolation. Theyre joined by Rusty a Wall Street high-flyer suddenly crashed to earth. In this little library that has become the heart of this small town Kit Sunny and Rusty are drawn to each other and to a cast of other offbeat regulars. As they come to terms with how their lives have unraveled they also discover how they might knit them together again and finally reclaim their stories.
language: English
title: Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
publisher: Harper Perennial