Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

A Winner of the Alex Award,a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fictionnamed a Best Book of the Year by NPRLos Angeles Timesand San Francisco Chronicle The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web-design drone and into the aisles of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. But after a few days on the jobClay discovers that the store is more curious than either its name or its gnomic owner might suggest. The customers are fewand they never seem to buy anything–insteadthey \