Do you know that? How the heck did we end up here? You’re probably thinking to yourself, Poor bastard, and tonight you’ll hug your kids extra tight because that’s what characters in these kinds of novels do. Officer” – he paused to read the cop’s badge – “Lambiase, you and I are characters in a bad novel. “Oh, Christ, I just did that stupid thing where the character forgets that the spouse has died and he accidentally uses ‘we’. almost embraces the way his life folds in on itself, growing smaller and more isolated even as his wine consumption increases. Although intelligent and witty, he’s not a very social creature, leaving that aspect of his life to be managed by his wife, who was beautiful and lively and gracious. He’s only in his mid-thirties, but seems older due to a somewhat cantankerous manner and a fair bit of literary snobbery. Fikry is a recently widowed fellow who owns a struggling bookstore on tiny Alice Island, Massachusetts.
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