The storied life of aj6/7/2023 and Maya, Zevin not only chronicles the foibles and idiosyncrasies of small-town life, but explores the depths of grief, yearning and heartbreak. There is, for example, precious little in the way of "single man struggling humourously with childcare" and virtually no "adoption hassles with faceless bureaucracy." Zevin has bigger things in mind.ĭespite its length – the novel can be read in a single sitting – The Storied Life of A.J. Zevin – who is better known as a young adult writer – navigates skilfully through treacherous terrain, avoiding the familiar and overturning readerly expectations. Fikry is better than that, better than merely "worth reading" – it's actually a treat, a small gem of a book. Just how it changes, though, and the repercussions of those changes, makes the novel worth reading. If you guess, at this point, that Fikry will take the foundling child in, that his life will change as a result, well, of course you're correct. "The father cannot be in her life, and I do not have a family that can help." For Fikry, that moment comes when he discovers Maya, a two-year-old girl who is left in his bookstore with a note from her mother: "I love her very much, but I can no longer take care of her," Maya's mother writes.
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