Pulled out this book from the bottom of my pile for some lighter reading. It turns out to be a very entertaining novel but also has some very interesting topics to take a deep dive into. Author Susan Wiggs has written a great book for book lovers. She references many different books and authors as she writes about a local independent book store.
Natalie is faced with so many challenges at the same time she is not sure which way to turn and the person she would go to for answers is gone. As Natalie is realizing that the job she thought was so important to her is not really fulfilling and as she gets a promotion to the corner office she thought would make her happy.
Then tragedy hits and she heads home to San Francisco to the bookstore she grew up in with her mother, Blythe and her Grandfather, Andrew. She wants to help rescue the building and the business to honor her mother and help her grandfather. Along the way she meets Peach Gallagher, a workman with his own relationship troubles and Trevor Dashwood, who is, as his name implies a dashing, popular, children's author who can help save the store.
A building that is one of the few remaining in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. As Peach starts fixing the plumbing leaks and crumbling walls he finds secrets the building has been hiding for years.
So reading this fun romance you are introduced relationship problems, people who are afraid of being vulnerable and open to love. Also many of the artifacts found in the building bring up various historical memories of the minority behaviors in the United States from the past.
The novel never gets really into any of the topics it touches, but brings them up and leaves room for the reader to examine these topics in their book discussions.
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