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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book." - The Washington Post "CAPTIVATING ... DELIGHTFUL." - Christian Science Monitor * "EXQUISITELY WRITTEN, CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING." - The New York Times * "MESMERIZING ... RIVETING." - BOOKLIST (starred review) A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries - from the bestselling author hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post.On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library.
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I'm the product of a happy and uneventful childhood in the suburbs of Cleveland, followed by a happy and pretty eventful four years as a student at University of Michigan. From there, I wandered to the West Coast, landing in Portland, Oregon, where I managed (somehow) to get a job as a writer. This had been my dream, of course, but I had no experience and no credentials. What I did have, in spades, was an abiding passion for storytelling and sentence-making. I fell in love with the experience of writing, and I've never stopped. From Portland, I moved to Boston, where I wrote for the Phoenix and the Globe, and then to New York, where I began writing for magazines, and, in 1987, published my first piece in The New Yorker. I've been a staff writer there since 1992.
