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Dec 12, 2007GingerKaren rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Tasmanian Rosemary, who is herself a lost thing, moves to New York city after her mother''s death. She finds a job in a huge bookshop called the Arcade that is also full of lost books and staff. Here they spend their days in different sections trying to keep things from being misplaced. With their boss watching from a platform where he barks orders as he prices the books, the staff play a game called "who knows" in order to locate the books. Rosemary''s supervisor and admirer is Walter Geist, an albino. And these are just two of the odd characters that inhabit the shop! Soon Rosemary finds herself caught up in the intrigue over a missing and unpublished Herman Melville novel. How it all unravels is one of the best parts of the book in this clever story of lust and lost things.