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jperine 's review for:
The Borrower
by Rebecca Makkai
A powerful story about the potential for books to save our lives. Makkai’s closing passage dedicating this story to those who read the final lines of books first (like I did when I was Ian’s age) broke me. I’d love nothing more than to give this five stars, but some of Lucy’s personal reflections on her identity seemed out of place and tonally dissonant with the rest of the book. I stand by my initial claim that this is the adult companion to Matilda.