The public library system becomes the site of a resistance struggle between citizens and the mayor in Eric Lundgren’s debut novel The Facades. In his analysis published in The New Yorker, Jon Michaud discusses the importance of Lundgren’s work in light of our “post-recession, cut-government-spending, sequester era.” As Lundgren writes:
It turned out—and how could the mayor have forseen this?—that certain deep psychological needs were being filled by the library. Disorders and manias were being held at bay.
