35 - The Borrower, by Rebcca Makkai, 324
pages, Penguin Books, 2011
WHY I PICKED IT: Stumbled onto it in a book store
ELAPSED TIME: 1 week
RATING: Meh
This is an interesting story.... Lucy Hull is a young librarian and has been kidnapped and is the kidnapper of her favourite patron: 10-year-old Ian Drake. The story is fairly engaging - why Ian ran away from home (he is unhappy with his parents), why Lucy is okay with it (they're religious zealots who are trying to reprogram what everybody in town is assuming is his future sexual choices), Lucy's Dad's life (he's a Russian mobster who's experiences in communist Russia come out of the story slowly, but quite interestingly).
Makkai is a good writer, who writes some great sentences... Ultimately though, the book is about 75 pages too long...
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