The Borrower

by Rebecca Makkai

Book Overview

In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670022810
• ISBN13: 9780670022816
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher