![]() ![]() They wind up on a meandering journey that passes through her parents’ home in Chicago, where Lucy picks up some cash from her father, an affluent Russian immigrant with vaguely unsavory business ties. Lucy is further appalled when she learns that Ian-whom everyone assumes is gay, though he’s only 10-is forced to attend weekly classes with Pastor Bob, who specializes in rehabilitating “sexually confused brothers and sisters in Christ.” So when Lucy finds Ian hiding in the library one morning with a knapsack, she decides to help him run away. Ian’s reading is severely circumscribed by his mother’s fundamentalist strictures, which rule out everything from Roald Dahl to Harry Potter. ![]() Lucy Hull feels sorry for Ian Drake, the most devoted attendee of her read-aloud on Friday afternoons. ![]() A children’s librarian in Hannibal, Mo., finds herself on a long, strange trip in Makkai’s ruminative first novel. ![]()
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