A review by vpesak
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken

4.0

I really didn't know what to expect of this book. It's an unusual love story but not really. Unusual in the sense that narrator Peggy Cort falls in love with a a boy more about half her age. Peggy is what many would call a spinster (a single 26 years old in a small town in 1950). This boy, James suffers from giantism and is seen as a spectacle and oddity to all. Both characters, however, suffer from loneliness that in which is assuaged in the friendship and love they find in each other. Peggy does so much to help James in the hopes that he will love her. Her love is all consuming. It is a "usual" love story in the it shows that people want to love and be loved.

It touches upon themes that I think that many people can connect with: feeling like and outsider, wanting love and discovering the capacities of one love for another.

I really enjoyed this and would definitely recommend it.