The Giant's House

Elizabeth McCracken

National Book Award FinalistThe 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 mis...