About the Book: The story centers on a young man whose life becomes a quest after his girlfriend mysteriously vanishes. He decides to search for the imaginary city where he believes her “true self” lives. His quest leads him to take a job in a remote library that holds its own mysteries. He eventually reaches the walled city—a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees—only to find his beloved working in a dream library. Crucially, she has no memory of their life together in the real world. As the boundary between reality and fantasy blurs, he is forced to confront what he’s willing to sacrifice for love. The book is an “ode to books and to the library.”