I’ve not yet found actual names for Handsome Man, Heroic Chin, and Freud Girl, but it doesn’t seem to matter. The story is still coming in waves, surging ideas crashing onto the page faster than I can type. Forced to stay put while the authorities search the building, Freddie and three others strike up a friendship that inspires Freddie to finally start writing her book: She’s idly glancing over her fellow Reading Room occupants and giving them nicknames in her head when a scream rends the air. Our narrator, Freddie, is an Australian author who’s received a fellowship to research her next novel in the United States. The book’s core is the story of four people brought together by a hair-raising scream while they’re all seated in the Reading Room of the Boston Public Library. What a delightfully meta-textual examination of writing in the 21st century! With The Woman In The Library, Sulari Gentill has written a truly thought-provoking modern crime fiction novel-one that entertains and enthralls at a high level while still keeping at least one foot grounded in reality.
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