What You are Looking For Is In The Library (#1,193) is certainly well named! This book by Michiko Aoyama was translated into English by Alison Watts after becoming a huge best seller in Japan. It's an interconnected series of stories about people in a Tokyo neighborhood who all stumble, for a variety of reasons, into their local Community House. They are all stuck in their own lives and are searching for something, but none of the characters knows exactly what that might be.
Until they meet the librarian of the Community House Library. Sayuri Komachi produces a list of the books each of the characters asks for to follow up on a class at the Community House, but on each printout there is a totally unexpected and unrelated title. Why has Ms. Komachi given them this particular title, along with a tiny, felted bonus gift she has made to go with it?
As they read their suggested titles, things begin to become clearer for each person, and they find, much to their surprise, that what they were looking for was at the library for them.
It's charming, touching and relatable. No wonder this book was such a hit in Japan! You'll find your own time well spent perusing this novel.
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