What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold,this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader’s life. What are you looking for? This is the famous question routinely asked by Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarianSayuri Komachi. Like most librariansKomachi has read every book lining her shelves–but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of her library guests. For anyone who walks through her doorKomachi can sense exactly what they’re looking for in life and provide just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it. Each visitor comes to her library from a different juncture in their careers and dreamsfrom the restless sales attendant who feels stuck at her job to the struggling working mother who longs to be a magazine editor. The conversation that they have with Sayuri Komachi–and the surprise book she lends each of them–will have life-altering consequences. With heartwarming charm and wisdomWhat You Are Looking For Is in the Library is a paean to the magic of librariesfriendship and communityperfect for anyone who has ever found themselves at an impasse in their life and in need of a little inspiration.