The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: A Love Letter to Books and Humanity
A.J. Fikry is a man adrift. A widowed and cynical bookshop owner on the remote Alice Island, his life is a quiet tragedy. His wife is gone, his business is failing, and his most valuable possession, a rare first edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tamerlane,” has been stolen. He is a curmudgeon who has isolated…