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36 Photo: Ryan Fowler The Borrower A Novel Rebecca Makkai 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? ReBeCCA MAkkAi lives in Chicago with her husband and two daughters. This is her first novel. “ Makkai’s probing novel reminds us that literature matters because it helps us discover ourselves while exploring the worlds of others.” —Chicago Tribune “ How could a reader of any age resist . . . The Borrower? Part caper . . . part coming-of-age story, it manages, with good humor and wry self-knowledge, to read our minds.” —O, The Oprah Magazine “ An appealing, nonromantic love story about an unexpected pairing—and a surprisingly moving one.” —The New York Times “ A lively, lovely read that delicately weaves together social activism, literary culture, and the quintessential road trip. . . . Reading The Borrower is like taking a blissfully nostalgic journey into the bookshelves of American childhood.” —WSJ.com Readers Guide available at penguin.com 5-City Author Tour Online Publicity National Print Advertising Radio Advertising Online Advertising Academic and library Marketing
“ 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 n Rebecca Makkai’s stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008 and numerous other publications n For fans of Little Bee and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand n A hardcover sales favorite n Great for reading groups n Visit rebeccamakkai.com n Also available as an e-book From The Borrower: I might be the villain of this story. Even now, it’s hard to tell. Back at the library, amid the books and books on ancient Egypt, the picture the children loved most showed the god of death weighing a dead man’s heart against a feather. There is this consolation, then, at least: One day, I will know my guilt. I’ve left behind everyone I used to know. I’ve found another library, one with oak walls, iron railings. A college library, where the borrowers already know what they’re looking for. I scan their books and they barely acknowledge me through their caffeinated haze. It’s nothing like my old stained-carpet, brick-walled library, but the books are the same—same spines, same codes on yellowed labels. I know what’s in them all. They whisper their judgment down. iSBN 978-0-14-312095-7 $15.00 ($16.00 CAN) Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 336 pp. Rights: E30 Pub history: Viking hc 978-0-670-02281-6 On sale: 5/29/<strong>2012</strong> SuGGeSTeD ORDeR Snap here to listen to a podcast of our interview with the author ClASSiC PeNGuiN juNe 37
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