"Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize winning Empire Falls
Lucy Hull, a children s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian when she finds him camped out in the library...
"Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize wi...
The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sneakily ambitious as she is unpretentious." Richard Russo Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents wealth but nevertheless finds herself living in their carriage house; Gracie, her mother, who claims she can tell your lot in life by looking at your teeth; and Bruce, her step-father, stockpiling supplies...
The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and ...
Named a must-read by theChicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, andThe L Magazine Named one of the best short story collections of 2015 by Bookpage and Kansas City Star Rebecca Makkai s first two novels, The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House, have established her as one of the freshest and most imaginative voices in fiction. Now, the award-winning writer, whose stories have...
Named a must-read by theChicago Tribune, O Magazine, BuzzFeed, The ...
