![]() ![]() Chapters are not written to surprise the reader. In such a world of stories, it is only appropriate that Fikry and the woman who becomes his second wife-a publisher’s representative- bond over a book they both love even though it has not sold well. While some of these notes are short reviews, others qualify more as personal memos to his daughter and wife, indicating the possible significance of certain stories for their lives. ![]() The main story is leavened by book talk: books for Maya, for different customers, for flourishing book clubs, and Fikry’s “shelf notes” on certain titles, which serve as interchapters. So she leaves Maya, drowns herself, and thus the story of one man’s awakening and a child’s growth begins. But he owns a bookstore, which is exactly the environment her distraught mother wants for the child. Fikry seems the last person on Alice Island to whom one would entrust a toddler named Maya. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:įiction Gabrielle Zevin. ![]()
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