The Bookshop Woman

This memoir reads like cozy fiction, and it was brilliant. Nanako Hanada had just gotten divorced and was feeling down. As a true book lover and manager at Village Vanguard, an eccentric bookstore in Tokyo, she joins an app where you meet in 30-minute bursts to find friendship and . . . with a promise to recommend a book at the end of every session that will change their life. You will love the cast of characters she meets and the journey that ensues.

The Bookshop Woman has been a global bestseller and afforded her the opportunity to open her own bookshop! Don’t miss this if you love all things books, Japan, manga, cozy fiction, or stories of how one ending is the path to an incredible new beginning.

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