The Bookstore Sisters

by Alice Hoffman

You think of the time when you imagined you would always live in a world of books, when in truth Isabel hadn’t read a book in years.

It was bad enough to be judged by one person, and somewhat overwhelming to be judged by two, especially when one wasn’t much more than eleven.

The author P. L. Travers once said, ‘A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.’”