Based on firsthand experiences as well as interviews and research, Overdue highlights the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded: racism, segregation, and class inequalities. These age-old problems manifest today in police violence, the opioid epidemic, rampant houselessness, and lack of mental health care nationwide-all of which come to a head in public library spaces. Can public librarians continue to play the many roles they are tasked with? Can American society sustain one of its most noble institutions? Pushing against hundreds of years of stereotypes, romanticization, and discomfort with a call to reckoning, Overdue will change the way you think about libraries forever