The borrower
By: Rebecca Makkai
Publisher: Windmill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780099538127
Subjects: Books and reading; Runaway children; Children's librarians; Runaway women; Fiction
Description: Lucy Hull, a young children&#x2019;s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, camped out in the library after hours. Addicted to reading, Ian needs help smuggling books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in antigay classes with Pastor Bob. Desperate to save Ian, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked, and the odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip.
Notes: Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2011.