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

4.0

National Book Award finalist for 1996 and one of Liberty Hardy's favorite books. I'll be seeking more from this author. I think I saw myself a bit in the protagonist: consider the first lines "I do not love mankind. People think their interesting. That's their first mistake." Peggy Cort is a spinster librarian whose life is changed forever when a young boy, James Carlson Sweatt, begins coming into the library regularly to take out books. He's a giant, in the medical sense, with an unconventional mother and absent father.