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Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
Sue Halpern
Harper Perennial
March 2018
On Sale: February 27, 2018
384 pages
ISBN: 0062678965
EAN: 9780062678966
Kindle: B07192GTB4
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry,
observant look at contemporary life and its refugees.
Halpern’s novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the
kind you come from and the kind you create. People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons.
Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come
to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the
public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what
she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk
about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of
what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can
simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to
forget her problems. But that changes when fifteen-year-old, home-schooled
Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary. The
judge throws the book at Sunny—literally—assigning her to
do community service at the library for the summer.
Bright, curious, and eager to connect with someone other
than her off-the-grid hippie parents, Sunny coaxes Kit
out of her self-imposed isolation. They’re joined by
Rusty, a Wall Street high-flyer suddenly crashed to
earth. In this little library that has become the heart of this
small town, Kit, Sunny, and Rusty are drawn to each
other, and to a cast of other offbeat regulars. As they
come to terms with how their lives have unraveled, they
also discover how they might knit them together again and
finally reclaim their stories.
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