The borrower : [a novel] / Rebecca Makkai.
2011
PS3613.A36 B67 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The borrower : [a novel] / Rebecca Makkai.
Author
Makkai, Rebecca.
ISBN
9780670022816
0670022810
0670022810
Publication Details
New York : Viking, 2011.
Language
English
Description
324 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PS3613.A36 B67 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6
Summary
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. 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. 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. Desperate to save him from Pastor Bob and the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. 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. But is it just Ian who is running away? Who is the man who seems to be on their tail? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?
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