He comes across a book that his wife left lying around and decided to read it, thinking it might get him closer to his wife. He has two grown daughters who have their own homes but don't live far from Mukash but Mukash had been tiptoeing around his house for two years not wanting to move on with his life after the death of his wife. Mukash has lost his wife two years prior to the opening of this book. I did enjoy the characters and the unlikely match of the two friends - Aleisha (a 17-yr-old student librarian and a 70-something yr-old Mukash. Perhaps it would have been better to read it rather than listen to it. This book moved at a glacial pace, and that is probably my biggest problem with it. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again. When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home.

Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.Īleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. 'The most heartfelt read of the summer.a surprising delight of a novel.'-ShondalandĪn unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.

A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR!

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