The Librarianist av deWitt Patrick deWitt

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<b>''I absolutely adored it'' NINA STIBBE</b><b>**Selected as a <i>Washington Post </i>Book of the Summer**From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life¿s surprises were behind him ¿ until a chance encounter changed everything</b><b>________________________________________________ </b>Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he¿s known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet¿s straight man facade is the story of an unhappy child¿s runaway adventur