![]() ![]() ![]() “As a writer,” she says, “I love writing about places that seem obvious to us, but that it turns out we really don’t know very much about. The other, she is quick to add, is just as personal. ![]() As Orlean tells Kirkus, one thing that motivated her to write about libraries in the first place was a desire to acknowledge the emotional import of books, and of family, of parents who care enough for their children to introduce them to reading and the world of books and writing in the first place. Yet the title is about the only simple part of a story that, like Orlean’s best-known book, The Orchid Thief, begins on an offbeat note and goes into realms that become ever less familiar as it moves along. So it is that Orlean’s new book is called, simply, The Library Book. And as for libraries-well, she’s been a lifelong bibliophile and library addict since childhood, inducted by her mother into a magical place where books were hers to be had for the asking, taught to be a reader with her mother’s endless encouragement, for which she remains grateful to this day. Having written more than a few of them herself, Susan Orlean is not the kind of person who easily leaves a bookstore or book sale empty-handed. ![]()
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