The year is 1883, and in New York City, it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. The Giant’s House is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about learning to welcome the unexpected miracle, and about the strength of choosing to love in a world that gives no promises, and no guarantees.
In James, Peggy discovers the one person who’s ever really understood her, and as he grows-six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight-so does her heart and their most singular romance. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless they soon find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. Until the day James Carlson Sweatt-the “over tall” eleven-year-old boy who’s the talk of the town-walks into her library and changes her life forever.
The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken. 2022 Winter/Early Spring Activities Guide.
