In order to enjoy this book, you have to squash your inner cynic but if you do, you will find this tale of a cranky book store owner in a small resort town/island off the coast of Massuchusetts a charming good time. A.J. Fikry is an old man at forty-five, grieving for his dead wife and annoyed at many of his customers’ tastes in fiction. In a matter of days, several events happen that begin to pull him out of his funk—he has a disasterous […]