Join the PS! Book Club on November 20th at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom for a discussion of the November selection, The Librarianist by Patrick DeWitt. In this novel, Bob Comet, a retired librarian passes his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk Bob encounters a confused elderly woman in pink lost in a market and his life takes a turn and his past reemerges. The Librarianist celebrates the extraordinary in the so-called ordinary life and beautifully depicts the turbulence that sometimes exists beneath a surface of serenity. Fiction. 352 pages (Hardcover)
Author Bio:
Patrick DeWitt was born in Canada, raised in Southern California and became a US citizen living in Oregon. He is the author of the novels French Exit (a national bestseller), The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize), and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions.