Introvert Hannah Gavener is uncomfortable with parties in college, and with dating. In order to pay for her therapist she takes a job shelving books at the veterinary library at her university, as a bonus she finds that she can be "almost peaceful" among the quiet stacks. The job also comes in handy as an excuse when she wants her date, Mike, to leave after a rather awkward date that lasted all night. She lies and tells him she has to go to work early at the library.
Hannah also has good memories of reading through all the biographies of the first ladies in fourth grade as part of a summer program at the public library. ("If you were a boy you read about the presidents.")
Hannah loved these books, their cheerful orderly recounting of lives...and by August she'd read all the way up to Nancy Reagan...For Hannah things had seemed good then, it had seemed like she was headed somewhere.
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