All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and irritating manager quickly bring reality crashing down around her. She is on the verge of quitting when she receives a message from somebody anonymous, inviting her to apply for a job at ?"The Night Library." The hours are from seven o?clock to midnight. The library exclusively stores books by deceased authors, and none of them can be checked out ? instead, they?re put on public display to be revered and celebrated by the library?s visitors, making it akin to a book museum.