While we are first exposed to young Odile’s charming character and riveting background, Charles subsequently gives us glimpses of Odile in her old age, changed from the person we were first introduced to. The other is set nearly four decades later, following Lily Jacobsen, a teenage girl from Froid, Mont., who is intrigued by her Parisian neighbor and intent on unveiling Odile’s past.Ĭharles establishes an interesting premise with the dual narrative. One follows Odile Souchet, a new librarian at the American Library in Paris on the brink of World War II. Based upon her own experiences working at the American Library in Paris and growing up in rural Montana, Charles tells the story of “The Paris Library” with two distinct threads. “The Paris Library” marks Janet Skeslien Charles’s second novel of her writing career.
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