ARC provided by Algonquin Books through Netgalley I am constantly saying this, but with this story I think I've hit the jackpot: This is the most difficult book I've ever had to review. (badly, some of you will probably say) Conceptually speaking, this is a five star rating. This ...
Curmudgeonly widowed not-quite-forty bookseller A.J. Fikry receives what at first seems like a magical gift; over the years, the lives of the people he interacts with (grudgingly & then less so) on Alice Island (a stand-in for Martha's Vineyard/Nantucket) unfold, as does his. Everyone is changed b...