The Librarianist

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 center that is her home. A novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him - until a chance encounter changes everything. From the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted "The Sisters Brothers".