Sue Halpern

audio fiction (10hrs15min, full cast audio - 3 narrators) - multiple characters and stories converge in a small New England town library: Kit, a woman trying to forget her ex-husband (who had turned out, somehow, to be a criminal?) accepts a job as a librarian on the other side of the country; Sunny, a 15 y.o. homeschooled/no-schooled teen serving court-mandated community service after attempting to steal a dictionary from a bookstore; and Rusty, an unmarried, unemployed man who is not looking for work, but for answers.

This is a slowly-developing story rather than a tear-through-it read, but the characters are interesting and daylight hours are long. The ending was awfully convenient and neat, but overall a pleasant diversion about finding a place to belong. (And as a librarian I enjoyed Sunny's observations of the library setting.)… (more)

This book was not at all what I expected. I thought it would be some lite book that took place in a library.
This is a story about: loss, longing, and loneliness and how a group of people deal with it.
The is the main character Kit, who has been through so much.
Rusty who has lost everything that made him who he thought he was.
A group of retired men- The Four- who meet at the library every day and shoot the breeze for hours.
And it is about 15 year old Sunny who is performing community service at the library as punishment for trying to steal a dictionary from Barnes & Noble.
Each character in this book is complex and fascinating.
This is a fantastic book!… (more)