![]() ![]() ![]() Our second narrator is Lily, an unhappy twelve-year-old girl growing up in Froid, Montana in the 1980s. ![]() With her twin brother Rémy fighting in the French army, these are difficult and worrying times for Odile, but her priority remains keeping the American Library and its collections safe from the Nazis and ensuring that those less fortunate can continue to find comfort in books. Her happiness doesn’t last long, however, because soon the Germans cross the Maginot Line and enter Paris. With her love of reading and obsession with learning the Dewey Decimal System, it’s Odile’s dream job and she quickly settles in, getting to know the other librarians and the people who come in to borrow books. One of the novel’s two main narrators, twenty-year-old Odile, starts working at the library in 1939 at the beginning of the war. One aspect of the Second World War that we don’t usually hear much about is the role of books and libraries, so I was immediately drawn to this new novel by Janet Skeslien Charles which tells the story of the American Library in Paris and the people who worked there during the Nazi occupation. ![]()
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