![]() ![]() Agent: Doug Stewart, Sterling Lord Literistic. Zevin is a deft writer, clever and witty, and her affection for the book business is obvious. The surprisingly expansive story includes a romance between Fikry and Amelia, and follows Maya to the age of 18 before arriving at a bittersweet denouement. 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. Gabrielle Zevin has written a wonderful, moving, endearing story of redemption and transformation that will sing in your heart for a very, very long time. The only thing that’s “storied” in the life of A.J. Fikry reminds us what saves us all from a life of loneliness and isolation: our sense of empathy our ability to love and be loved our willingness to care and be cared for. ![]()
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