The Giant's House is an unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the tallest boy in the world. This magical first novel from Elizabeth McCracken captures the essence of unexpected connections and the beauty of peculiar relationships.

Set in the year 1950, in a quaint town on Cape Cod, twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. That is, until the day James Carlson Sweatt—the "over tall" eleven-year-old boy who's the talk of the town—walks into her library and changes her life forever.

Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship. Yet, they soon find their lives entwined in ways neither could have predicted. In James, Peggy discovers the one person who's ever truly understood her, and as he grows—six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight—so does her heart and their singular romance.

The Giant's House is a tender and quirky novel about learning to welcome unexpected miracles and the strength of choosing love in a world that offers no promises or guarantees.