and little Maya turn Island Books into a place of light. With a little help from the adorable police chief Lambiase, his sister-in-law Ismay, and the Sales Agent Amelia Evans, A.J. The toddler immediately steals the man’s heart, driving him to rebuild his life, to put himself out there and, above all, to love his job again. The father cannot be in her life, and I do not have a family that can help. I love her very much, but I can no longer take care of her. I want her to grow up in a place with books and among people who care about those kinds of things. She is VERY SMART, exceptionally verbal for her age, and a sweet, good girl. One day, a young woman abandons her daughter at the bookshop, leaving a note: His grouchy and standoffish attitude is a frail disguise of a good, hurt man, who’s just forgotten how to open his (big) heart to life. Fikry owns a bookshop that he and his (deceased) wife bought when they were young. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that there will be a book business for a very long time.Ī.J. Gabrielle Zevin’s humour, elegance, and writing knowledge, make this book so real that we really feel like we live in Alice Island and we’re part of the magical world of Island Books, a bookshop that the character Amelia Evans describes as Fikry (originally published as The Collected Works of A. Who's like to open a holy bookshop, like the one in The Storied Life of A.J.
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