About the Book

National Book Award Finalist

The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod, 26-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt—the ""over-tall"" 11-year-old boy who's the talk of the town—walks into her library and changes her life. 

Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless, they find their lives intertwined in ways neither one could have predicted. And as James grows - six-foot-five at age 12, then seven feet, then eight—so does Peggy's heart and their most singular romance.

This production includes a bonus excerpt from Elizabeth McCracken’s next audiobook, Bowlaway.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780062885135
• ISBN 10: 0062885138
• Imprint: HarperAudio
• On Sale: 12/04/2018
• List Price:34.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary
• BISAC2 : FICTION / Sagas
• BISAC3 : FICTION / Contemporary Women

Elizabeth McCracken

Biography

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books, including The Hero of This Book, The Souvenir Museum (long-listed for the National Book Award), Bowlaway, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (winner of the 2014 Story Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award), and The Giant’s House (a National Book Award finalist). Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, won three Pushcart Prizes, a National Magazine Award, and an O. Henry Prize. She has served on the faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair for Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin.

Other Works by Elizabeth McCracken

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  The Hero of This Book

  By Elizabeth McCracken

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  The Souvenir Museum

  By Elizabeth McCracken

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  Bowlaway

  By Elizabeth McCracken