5/8/2023 0 Comments The borrower by rebecca makkai![]() ![]() Lucy and Ian travel across the country, with Lucy struggling to understand her own motives in essentially kidnapping a child she barely knows. On the way, Lucy makes an impulsive decision and continues driving, leaving Ian's mother and their small town behind. Ian tells Lucy that he has no intention of returning home, but Lucy packs him into her car and heads toward his house. One morning, Lucy comes to work and finds Ian tucked away in a corner of the children's section, where he had spent the night. During the time Lucy interacts with Ian, she begins to suspect that the quiet, sensitive boy may be gay and struggling with his own identity. Lucy agrees, but quickly helps Ian smuggle home books that contradict his mother's wishes. ![]() Ian's mother, an extremely conservative Christian, does not want Ian reading the filth Lucy chose for Ian instead, she wants her son reading books with a moral, Godly message. Lucy helps Ian find a series of books that she enjoyed when she was Ian's age, but Ian's mother soon appears to put a stop to Lucy's efforts. Soon, the appearance of Ian Drake, a young boy who visits the library in search of good books, upsets Lucy's carefully balanced life. ![]() Lucy Hull, a children's librarian at a small library in a small town, lives alone and, in her late twenties, thinks that is what she wants. A small-town librarian leaves her life behind to save a boy. ![]()
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