Erica Bauermeister

That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go…

Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives.

Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways―and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.

No Two Persons

Jenna Thornton

“the lives in the books not hers, but the pain and tangled love so often the same, creating a community of sorts. books answered the questions she couldn’t ask people.” 

Emma Hak-Kovacs

Because he loved her; that much he knew stunned by her smile and how gracefully life rested upon her. There were times when he yearned to spoon his soul into the warmth of her belief that people were essentially good, and things would always turn out okay.

"Why would I care?" she said. "Time moves forward."

Picking up a book was a decision: I'm going to go away. The exciting possibility: I may not come back the same.

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