The LibrarianistFrom bestselling and award winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market