Funny Girl: Life Imitates Art Imitates Life.

Glow: A Drug-Fueled Romp in South London.

In The Light Of What We Know: Dense, Dazzling, Exa.

But read it in a good mood, and you'll be delighted, I think.

In fact, if you're in a bad mood when you read, you might be tempted to be cynical and call it too fluffy. It's a novel that falls just barely on the right side of precious. But those parts are really just the decorations. There also is a mystery, some infidelity, car crashes, and a child named Maya whose parentage is of some dispute. A short, sweet serving of a story about books and the people who love them. describes a Roald Dahl story titled 'The Bookseller' as a 'bonbon' - and that's exactly what this novel is. There's plenty of bookish Easter eggs sprinkled throughout - an argument about Infinite Jest, a woman who wants a refund for The Book Thief because she doesn't like a novel narrated by Death, and several descriptions of A.J.'s favorite short stories. That's a pretty heavy start to what actually turns into a terrific, light, feel-good novel that reads like an ode to books, bookstores, and book people. His wife was killed in a car wreck, and now, his valuable Edgar Allen Poe manuscript has been stolen. A.J.'s the kind of dude who isn't happy unless he's miserable - but it's not all his fault. She's new to the job, and has had the gall to pitch him a touchy-feely memoir, which is not at all to his taste.

In the first scene of the novel, we see him at his lowest: Being a total jerk to a sales rep from a small publishing house. Fikry, our eponymous protagonist is a cantankerous indie bookstore owner on a small island off the coast of Massachusetts. In Gabrielle Zevin's popular novel, The Storied Life of A.J.

The life of aj fikry