The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Librarian Sloane has a lot going on. She’s engaged to a chiropractor whose family somewhat endearingly tries to plan her wedding. Her parents are wrapped up in their own lives and fighting with each other. At work, Sloane enters an unlikely almost-friendship with Arthur, a grumpy older patron, that starts with an insult but eventually turns into daily banter. Sloane comes to care about Arthur, and when he doesn’t show up at the library for a span of days, she breaks library policy and tracks him down. Sloane soon sees that Arthur is in need of help and companionship and begins caring for him, as well as hosting a book club to help bring him some human interaction. In the days that follow, readers see both Sloane and Arthur grow, and interesting characters complement the relationship of Sloane and Arthur and the book club. Just as readers can get lost in books, they can also use fiction to find themselves, as the members of the Lonely Hearts Book Club come to learn.