The narrative is Lucy’s, five years after the fact. The longer the escapade continues, the more Lucy feels like a kidnapper. For 10 days, the two travel from Missouri to the U.S.-Canada border. It takes him longer to calm down than Lucy anticipates. Through temper-tantrums and manipulation, Ian has convinced Lucy (or she has convinced herself) that she should not call his fundamentalist Christian parents to tell them Ian has run away to the library, and that she should instead take him for a ride so he can calm down before returning home. How wonderful for Ian to have time away from home to sort things out.īut Ian’s parents have no idea where he is. How lovely for Lucy to have the freedom to take to the open roads and have time for self-reflection. The two have made an unusual connection, and both need this time away from work, home and school for different reasons - Ian to escape a world where his parents censor his reading material and send him to “anti-gay” classes, Lucy to escape the mundane world she has created for her 26-year-old self. Children’s librarian Lucy Hull is taking a spontaneous road trip with Ian Drake, a 10-year-old patron of the public library where she works.
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