The Reading List

by Sara Nisha Adams

He can feel the story take control of his mind, pulling him away. His own thoughts, his worries, that voice, begin to buzz at the back of his mind, and eventually they become nothing but white noise. When he was younger, his mum would bring him here with his little

“The people are endlessly fascinating,” Aidan had said to her when she’d told him she’d actually gotten the job. “Like, just watching people sit and be quiet, or browse, or whatever, when they don’t realize they’re being watched . . . It’s like, I don’t know, no one’s trying to be someone they’re not in a library.”