An unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the
tallest boy in the world, "The Giant's House" is the magical first novel
from the author of the 1994 ALA Notable collection Here's Your Hat,
What's Your Hurry.
The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-six-year-old
librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. Until
the day James Carlson Sweatt--the "over tall" eleven-year-old boy who's
the talk of the town--walks into her library and changes her life
forever. Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk,
Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship, but nevertheless they
soon find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have
predicted. In James, Peggy discovers the one person who's ever really
understood her, and as he grows--six foot five at age twelve, then seven
feet, then eight--so does her heart and their most singular romance.
"The Giant's House" is an unforgettably tender and quirky novel about
learning to welcome the unexpected miracle, and about the strength of
choosing to love in a world that gives no promises, and no guarantees.