Operations Manager Nicole Lichtenberg recommends The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd.
This book has it all. It has intrigue. It has machine learning. It has romance. It has family drama. It has maps.
Told through multiple narrators and timelines, The Cartographers winds its way through a decades-old mystery, the details of which I cannot divulge without spoiling the plot.
It is thrilling enough to be a wonderful diversion, while not so thrilling as to cause unnecessary stress.
It is both very similar to our world—one of the main characters, arguably, is a library—and wonderfully absurd. Apparently this library has so much storage space that they can lose track of whole closets. If only.
I listened to The Cartographers as an audiobook and I loved it. It is also available in print. I would describe it as being on the short side of long. If you like mysteries, maps, or magical realism, or are just bored to tears of the godawful weather (as I write this, it is snowing), this book might be for you.
