By Patrick deWitt
September 15, 2023
Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books.
One morning on his daily walk, Bob encounters a confused elderly woman and returns her to the senior centre that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, he begins volunteering there.
Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around him, and following a brush with a painful complication from his past, the story of Bob’s life is revealed: the story of an unhappy child’s runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true live won and stolen away; of the purpose and pride found in the librarian’s vocation.
