![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps it’s because I am not yet ready to diverge them from their inspiration, to stem that momentum of discovery, the excitement of new friendship that seems to form a story of itself. I’ve not yet found actual names for Handsome Man, Heroic Chin, and Freud Girl, but it doesn’t seem to matter. ![]() The story is still coming in waves, surging ideas crashing onto the page faster than I can type. Forced to stay put while the authorities search the building, Freddie and three others strike up a friendship that inspires Freddie to finally start writing her book: She’s idly glancing over her fellow Reading Room occupants and giving them nicknames in her head when a scream rends the air. Our narrator, Freddie, is an Australian author who’s received a fellowship to research her next novel in the United States. The book’s core is the story of four people brought together by a hair-raising scream while they’re all seated in the Reading Room of the Boston Public Library. What a delightfully meta-textual examination of writing in the 21st century! With The Woman In The Library, Sulari Gentill has written a truly thought-provoking modern crime fiction novel-one that entertains and enthralls at a high level while still keeping at least one foot grounded in reality. ![]()
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