The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World by E.L. KonigsburgAtheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007

Reading a kids’ book after reading Proust felt funny, and I’m not sure I have anything to say about this book, other than that I read it in two days and stayed up past bedtime to finish it. Parts of this book—the mystery of it, the friendship between children and an eccentric old woman—reminded me of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, though this book’s set in Florida, not New York, and concerns two boys helping to sort through an elderly neighbor’s belongings before an estate sale, rather than two kids running away to live at the Met.