![]() ![]() ![]() Adult Content Matter Weaponry the Theory of Evolution Halloween Roald Dahl, Lois Lowry, Harry Potter, and similar authors.” Ian’s mother, a fundamentalist Christian who rarely visits the library, sails in one day and hands Lucy a disconcerting list of what Ian shouldn’t be allowed to read: “Witchcraft/Wizardry Magic Satanism/ Occult Religions, etc. His name is Ian Drake, and the other librarians like him a lot because of the uncomfortable fact that if you’re mad about books, there’s probably something missing, something unpleasant or fearsome in the real world you find yourself living in. Into Lucy’s pleasant life comes a loud-voiced goofball of a kid who loves the library, loves Lucy and loves the entire world of books. Lucy’s main drama has been declaring her financial independence from her domineering, charming, utterly immoral Russian immigrant father. Until now, her life has been peaceful and uneventful, her various boyfriends good-natured but unimportant. Lucy Hull, the narrator of Rebecca Makkai’s first novel, “The Borrower,” is a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Mo. Have you ever stood in a grocery line where the young mother in front of you gives her kid a gratuitous whack or asks, “Do you really want to be fatter than you already are?” What do you do? How do you cope with the cruelty? And worse, more subtle and sad, what if the mean parent seems sincerely concerned about the child’s welfare or even the child’s immortal soul? ![]()
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