The Book of Records By Madeleine Thien Material:Soft Cover attended by luminaries like Lena

attended by luminaries like Lena Horne and Hattie McDaniel

is devoted to Naoko

When Neil is named valedictorian

a baby lies alone in her pram

The Book of Records By Madeleine Thien Material:Soft Cover attended by luminaries like LenaA novel that leaps across centuries past and future, as if different eras were separated by only a door. Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbors: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth century Amsterdam; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s