The Librarianist: A Novel
From the author of French Exit, The Librarianist is a big-hearted story about a retired librarian who opens up to a new community when he begins volunteering at a senior living facility. This is a loving tribute to the introverted and reminds us that there is so much under the surface for each of us, even the quietest and most seemingly straight-laced among us.
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From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.
Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts 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...






















