The Bookshop of Yesterdays
A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric Uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda’s life. She doesn’t hear from him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy—and one final scavenger hunt.
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Amy Meyerson
Amy Meyerson writes novels that feel like conversations overheard in a favorite place, intimate, curious and full of unspoken history. Her stories often begin with a simple object or a chance discovery, a stack of old letters, a family heirloom, a quiet bookstore, and from there they widen into explorations of how the past shapes the present. Readers met her voice for the first time in The Bookshop of Yesterdays, a warm literary mystery set among dusty shelves and complicated relatives, and the book quickly found audiences around the world. Translated into multiple languages and embraced by book clubs, it announced the arrival of a writer drawn to puzzles of memory as much as the emotional lives behind them.
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