on a Friday night, Chief Lambiase tells him they'll have to wait until Monday for any help from social services. takes Maya to the police station to see what he should do. When he investigates inside, he finds a toddler named Maya with a note pinned to her from her biological mother, asking the owner of the bookstore to care for Maya because she is unable. He left it unlocked, but he's sure he didn't leave it actually open. Upon returning from a run one evening, A.J. begins to leave the door to Island Books unlocked, as he believes there is nothing left to be stolen. Soon after, A.J.'s rarest book, 'Tamerlane and Other Poems' (referred to almost solely as 'Tamerlane' throughout the novel), is stolen from his apartment above the bookstore on a night when he has passed out from drinking too much alcohol. during one of his particularly lonely times, and he rejects every book she offers. Knightley Press book rep Amelia Loman comes to visit A.J. His two friends are Daniel Parish, an author, and Daniel's wife Ismay, who is Nic's sister. owns Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, an island in the Cape Cod, Massachusetts, region. He misses his late wife, Nic, and tends to dream about her when he's upset or lonely. is a widower who doesn't like living alone but has resigned himself to it. to his daughter Maya.Īt the beginning of the novel, A.J.

Each chapter begins with an introduction, which the reader learns early on are book notes from A.J. Each chapter is titled after a book, though there is no pattern to the titles other than the fact that they give a slight hint as to what will be discussed or described in the forthcoming chapter. Fikry's life, told in short-story narrative form over the course of two parts and 13 chapters.

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