The Bookstore Sisters Pdf is a Magical Realism Fictonal novel By Alice Hoffman. From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world.
The Bookstore Sisters Book Summary
Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again.
But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island. What she finds there may forever alter her path—and change everything she thought she knew about her family, her home, and herself.
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About Alice Hoffman Author Of The Bookstore Sisters Pdf Book
Alice Hoffman Author of The Bookstore Sisters Pdf is an author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The World That We Knew; The Marriage of Opposites; The Red Garden; The Museum of Extraordinary Things; The Dovekeepers; Here on Earth, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; and the Practical Magic series, including Practical Magic; Magic Lessons; The Rules of Magic, a selection of Reese’s Book Club; and The Book of Magic. She lives near Boston.
The Bookstore Sisters pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- ASIN : B0BB52CCND
- Publisher : Amazon Original Stories (November 1, 2022)
- Publication date : November 1, 2022
- Language : English
- Best Sellers Rank: #2 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1 in Kindle Singles: Literature & Fiction
- #1 in Magical Realism
- #1 in Women’s Fiction (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews: 4.4 out of 5 stars 10,196 ratings
The Bookstore sisters Book Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Books, grief, and family
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2022
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Isabel grew up on Brinkley’s Island, Maine, and always felt out of place. Her father ran a bookstore, but while he loved books, he was pretty bad at finances, or the most basic aspects of running a business. Family money was always tight. Their mother gave her and her sister a lot of love, though–until she died, when- Sophie was twelve and Isabel was ten. Their father did his best, and Sophie took over most of their mother’s duties, but when their father died, Isabel had had enough. They had both promised to keep the bookstore running, but Isabel wants to sell it and split the funds. Sophie wins the fight, and Isabel leaves for New York.
She’s only seen Sophie once since then, and that was twelve years ago, when Sophie’s husband died while she was pregnant. Isabel knows she handled that really badly, and has worked hard to forget everything about Brinkley’s Island. Then she gets an envelope in the mail, with a card that says nothing but HELP.
Isabel has been walking dogs for a living, and she has one dog with her that she can’t return to his home that will be empty for several more hours–especially when Hank, the Labrador, starts howling in distress when they approach the house. She takes him with her to Brinkley Island.
Withdrawn, self-isolated Isabel arrives on Brinkley’s Island with a dog, to find her niece Violet, whom she has never met, waiting at the dock for her. Violet is not happy with her, but had no other family to send for. Sophie fell, and broke her leg, and is laid up for six more weeks. 11-year-old Violet can’t run the store. Isabel, unwillingly, starts cleaning and organizing the store, so they can reopen.
She also finds her mother’s box of recipes, and making her mother’s evocatively named cookies, cupcakes, and other sweets. My favorite are the “You’ll feel better in the morning” cupcakes.
She comes up with ideas for raising money to reopen the store, and ways to bring people into the store buying things rather than just borrowing books (which their father had, in his love of books and people, and poor business sense, allowed).
She talks to Sophie, to Violet, to Mr. Hawley, father of Sophie’s late husband, Matt. To a man she has almost forgotten spending some time with when she returned for Matt’s funeral. She gets Violet, who doesn’t read books because she associates them with Isabel, who used to read constantly, abandoning her mother. Along the way, the ice around Isabel’s heart starts melting.
It’s a wonderful story. I love all the characters. Seriously, every character that has a speaking role, including of course the dog, Hank. Recommended.
5.0 out of 5 stars Love and Family
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 6, 2022
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It’s never too late to make things right with your family inside your heart. I love how this story made that point, and it was beautiful. Such a nice little story about one sister running away from love because it to much to lose, after her mother died. She left the boy she loved behind, her sister (the only family she had left) and her home. She also gave up reading and painting. When her sister’s daughter sent a message saying “help” she dropped everything and went home. She found her sister had badly broken her leg, and with her husband dead and just her teenage daughter to help at home and running the bookshop, she was struggling. But it was her teenage daughter that reached out for help.
It was a short, sweet and moving story. I love stories about sisters. I had two sisters and lost one in death, and it really made me appreciate my other sister, and my family. We should never take family for granted.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Running away can be a trap
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2022
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The Bookstore Sisters: A Short Story
by Alice Hoffman
This short story is my first time reading Alice Hoffman’s work and it was a sweet experience. Not only were there desert recipes from the two sisters’ late mother’s recipe file but there is finding the strength to let go of the sad things in life so that one can go forward and enjoy all that is good in life. Isabel Gibson has been estranged from her sister and her hometown for ten years. When she gets a note saying HELP she heads back to Brinkley’s Island, Maine, home of the past that she wants to forget. Not that her present is worth remembering although she does have a favorite dog she walks, Hank, who she takes with her when she heads home.
There is so much to like here and I would not mind a full length book in this world and with these people and Hank. It seems others know more about Isabel than she knows about herself. The independence she ran towards was more trap than a freedom, when there was so much that she was remembering incorrectly. This was a good introduction to Alice Hoffman for me. This was one of my Amazon Prime First Reads selections.
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