The Borrower (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143120957)

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. --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 after hours, and the odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?

Author: Rebecca Makkai
ISBN-10: 0143120956
ISBN-13: 9780143120957
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2012
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d

About the Author
Rebecca Makkai's stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2009, and 2010, and have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and on NPR's Selected Shorts. Makkai teaches elementary school and lives north of Chicago with her husband and two daughters.