The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCraken.
I have great affection for this novel. A strange little book, it portrays the love story between a librarian and a much younger man, a man afflicted with a syndrome that causes him to be disproportionately tall. McCracken’s book is beautiful because of the way it captures the affection and love between such an unlikely pair. Even while the circumstances of their friendship and eventual relationship sometimes walk the line between what might be considered appropriate in more conventional circles, McCracken shows the true love of their regard and care for each other, right down to acts of care for the young man’s increasingly ill body. Read this book. It is strange. It is odd. And it is unerringly sweet.
