The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is in trouble. I would like to share a few books whose common theme is everyday courage.įrom the winner of the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction comes a tender and funny debut novel, set over one emotionally charged weekend at an animal sanctuary in western Kansas, where maternal, romantic, and community bonds are tested in the wake of an estranged daughter’s homecoming. In these perilous times, I am even more in awe of the brave librarians. Then and now, anxiety is in the air because we don’t know what will happen. Today, we are wearing a different kind of mask, and once again, we are afraid for our loved ones. People pasted brown strips of paper on the windows as protection against shattered glass in case of bombing and brought in pails of dirt to put out possible fires. Before the war, in the summer of 1939, librarians, like all Parisians, carried gas masks. I can’t help but think of the parallels between life now and the situation in The Paris Library. I knew this story was a novel and sat down to write it.
It was a dangerous mission-a librarian was shot by the gestapo. The librarians resisted with the only weapons they had: books.
When I worked at the American Library in Paris, coworkers told me about the international team of librarians who defied the Nazis in order to hand deliver books to Jewish readers. Visit her at .īased on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, The Paris Library is a tale of friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together. She has been in Paris since March 2020 and loves talking to friends, family, and book clubs on Zoom. Janet’s first novel, MOONLIGHT IN ODESSA, was translated into twelve languages. Janet Skeslien Charles is the award-winning author of THE PARIS LIBRARY, which was selected as a #1 Indie Next Pick by independent booksellers.
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