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The Borrower
by Rebecca Makkai
This novel leads us on an improbable road trip with a wonderful (if exhausting) 10-year old Boy and his, um, Russian-American Librarian? Yes, though with the amount of pages devoted to the Librarian's self-doubt and conflict between her actions, sanity, and reality, what you want most of all is for her to just admit that she indeed kidnapped, in her own way, this child and that's a pretty unstable thing to do.
Despite a sometimes redundant narration and a far-fetched (but not magical or fantastical) foundation, there are charms to be found between these covers: the parodies/adaptations of classic children's books to this story (for example, "If You Give a Librarian a Closet) and the sweetly funny Boy himself (see "How to brush your teeth like a ten-year old boy"). And, thank God or literature, that she wraps it all up in a manner befitting the rest of the story--no jail bars, no violent drama, but a just, humorous, and still uncertain finale.
Despite a sometimes redundant narration and a far-fetched (but not magical or fantastical) foundation, there are charms to be found between these covers: the parodies/adaptations of classic children's books to this story (for example, "If You Give a Librarian a Closet) and the sweetly funny Boy himself (see "How to brush your teeth like a ten-year old boy"). And, thank God or literature, that she wraps it all up in a manner befitting the rest of the story--no jail bars, no violent drama, but a just, humorous, and still uncertain finale.