1918: as the Great War rages, Jessie Carson leaves the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Upon arrival, Jessie turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears. 1987: NYPL librarian and aspiring writer Wendy Peterson discovers that she and the elusive librarian have more in common than their work at New York's famed library, but she has no idea their paths will converge in surprising ways across time.
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