![]() ![]() We’re too quick to speak like Madeline, we’re too laid back like Claire, and our first reaction is too often anger just like Janet.īut then, as the layers of our heart are peeled back, we see the growth in each character and long for that transformation in our own lives. Katherine Reay’s inimitable style invites us into the story in such a way that we see ourselves reflected in each character. ![]() And through it all we see the power of one woman’s life and legacy, a woman whose “wrinkles were born of a million smiles.” The story is told from each one’s perspective, by turns, in Katherine Reay’s new book, The Printed Letter Bookshop. It’s the bookshop that draws together three unlikely friends: Madeline the single lawyer, Claire the mom of two teenagers, and Janet the newly divorced 50-something. And while it may not have shown great monetary profits, the close-knit community of friends she’d made is priceless. The Printed Letter Bookshop–a bookshop, not a bookstore, mind you–is where Aunt Maddie invested everything, including the money from Uncle Pete’s life insurance. ![]() ![]() Each boiled down to something like Aren’t books pure joy?” “Aunt Maddie glowed every morning as we pushed open the alley’s sticky door, and she asked us the same question a hundred different ways. ![]()
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