When Odile Souchet accepts a job at the American Library in Paris, the young Frenchwoman can't believe her good fortune. She spends every day surrounded by books and fellow bibliophiles, forging deep friendships she never dreamed possible and even finding romance. But life as Odile knows it changes forever when German occupiers sweep into Paris, and her sheltered world begins to crack apart. Based loosely on the real-life American Library in Paris, whose librarians kept the library open throughout the occupation despite great personal risk, The Paris Library is a poignant novel about friendship and betrayal, love and loss, regret and forgiveness.