![]() ![]() She is twenty-five months old.” Somewhat unbelievably, Maya ends up in his care and, predictably enough, opens the irascible bookseller’s heart. But then Fikry finds an abandoned toddler in his bookstore with a note saying, “This is Maya. Soon after the meeting, he suffers another loss: a rare first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem Tamerlane (Fikry’s primary retirement asset) goes missing. He’s disgruntled by the state of publishing, and bereft because his beloved wife, Nic, recently died in a car accident. Her first meeting with Fikry does not go well. ![]() ![]() It’s a “persnickety little bookstore,” in the words of Amelia Loman, the new sales rep for Knightley Press. Fikry runs Island Books, located on Alice Island, a fictional version of Martha’s Vineyard. Fikry, a curmudgeonly independent bookseller, in this funny, sad novel from Zevin (The Hole We’re In), is his obvious love of literature-particularly short stories. The only thing that’s “storied” in the life of A.J. ![]()
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