![]() ![]() Even if you sometimes have to sell pulp fiction in order to carry the literary fiction. Through taking care of Maya and getting involved in the community, he finds that running a bookstore isn’t half bad. as her father) that the bookstore finds a second life. It’s through people’s concern for her (and for A.J. But his daughter, whom he names Maya Tamerand Fikry when he finally adopts her, gets under his skin and the skin of the community. ![]() He is a reluctant father, mostly because his wife was pregnant when she died, and he hasn’t quite gotten over the loss. The second is significant because it changes his life. Without it, he’s stuck on the island, running this bookstore, for the unforeseeable future. The first is significant because Tamerlane was A.J.’s retirement fund. ![]() Then two things happen: someone steals his first edition copy of Tamerlane, by Edgar Allan Poe, and someone leaves a 2-year-old girl on the doorstep of the bookstore. In the 21 months since his wife’s accidental death after an author event, he’s become increasingly more reclusive and cranky. Fikry is the owner of Island Books on Alice Island (off the coast of Massachusetts), and it’s not something he’s terribly fond of. ![]()
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