The <b>heightening tension throughout their haphazard road trip</b> from Missouri to Vermont is <b>exhilarating</b>... <b>This astonishingly assured novel knows precisely where it's heading</b> ... the reader is breathless with hope that Lucy and Ian will find a happy ending.
Daily Mail
A tale of the inspirational power of children's books...<i>The Borrower</i> is <b>a tremendously entertaining read.</b>
Financial Times
<b><i>The Borrower</i>'s out and out charm is heightened by its furious, righteous heart and conviction that books offer salvation and hope when life is messy and near-unbearable</b>
Marie Claire
<b>Funny, charming</b> debut...it's <b>a lovely, inventive novel</b>, smart but not annoyingly wise-cracking, about the power of books and stories to sustain people when life becomes impossible... <b>warmly demonstrates that love can come in different and unexpected guises</b>.
Metro
<b>The sheer zest and care with which this book is written, as well as the emphasis on children's literature, set it apart</b>... Makkai is <b>an engaging writer</b>.
Guardian
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Rebecca Makkai’s stories have been anthologised in the Best American Short Stories 2010, 2009, and 2008, and have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and on Public Radio's Selected Shorts. The Borrower is her first novel. She lives north of Chicago with her husband and two daughters.
For more information visit Rebecca’s website: www.rebeccamakkai.com