The Bookseller is a provocative and hauntingly powerful debut novel that follows Kitty Miller, a woman in the 1960s who wrestles to reconcile her daily life as a single bookstore owner with the alternate reality she suddenly begins to dream about each night, in which she is a happily-married wife and mother. This book is great for fans of books and films about the "road not taken," like Sliding Doors, and women's narratives about the struggles of motherhood verses independence. The author convincingly weaves her tale of dream worlds verses reality, both as fleshed out as the other, and readers will be enthralled with Kitty's two lives and the choices she must make.
Check out an egalley from Edelweiss here. Voting for the March LibraryReads list ends January 20, so just enough time to do a little early holiday reading!
-Amanda