Librarianist

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 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 centre that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he`s known since retiring, Bob begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a 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 adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian`s vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses.