He notices a gap on the shelf and searches the book skyscrapers rising from the floor for the missing volume. He locates it (A Dictionary of Birds, Part IV: Sheathbill–Zygodactyli), slides it back into place, hikes up his belt, lines himself up with his desk chair, and inserts his bottom — one more bulky reference work returned to its rightful home.

— Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists