![]() ![]() Lucy Hull feels sorry for Ian Drake, the most devoted attendee of her read-aloud on Friday afternoons. A children’s librarian in Hannibal, Mo., finds herself on a long, strange trip in Makkai’s ruminative first novel. ![]() The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and upsetting family history thrown in their path. Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower. by Rebecca Makkai RELEASE DATE: June 27, 2011. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a knapsack of provisions and an escape plan.ĭesperate to save him from Pastor Bob and the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. The author discusses The Plaza, her story from the latest issue of the magazine. The Borrower a book by Rebecca Makkai The first novel from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower. Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, 10-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. ![]() In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. ![]()
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