A01=Rebecca Makkai
Author_Rebecca Makkai
books fiction
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coming of age
contemporary fiction
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escape mission
family squabbles
fiction
fiction books
forbidden book
good books
house of fiction
kidnap
librarian
literary fiction
literature
modern fiction
novels
parental control
politics
popular books
relationships
richard russo
road trip
short stories
stolen book
the borrowers
the transgender issue
the trouble with belonging
top books
Product details
- ISBN 9780099538127
- Weight: 235g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Cornerstone
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Lucy Hull, a young children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favourite 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 anti-gay classes. When Lucy finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a backpack of provisions and an escape plan, she allows herself to be hijacked by him and the pair embark on a spontaneous road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy really be trying to save a boy from his own parents?
Rebecca Makkai’s stories have been anthologised in the Best American Short Stories 2010, 2009, and 2008, and have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and on Public Radio's Selected Shorts. The Borrower is her first novel. She lives north of Chicago with her husband and two daughters.
For more information visit Rebecca’s website: www.rebeccamakkai.com
