The Bookshop of Yesterdays

A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric Uncle Billy´s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda´s twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda´s life. She doesn´t hear from him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy--and one final scavenger hunt. When Miranda returns home to Los Angeles and to Prospero Books--now as its owner--she finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the store´s shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs, in the name of the store itself. Miranda becomes determined to save Prospero Books and to solve Billy´s last scavenger hunt. She soon finds herself drawn into a journey where she meets people from Billy´s past, people whose stories reveal a history that Miranda´s mother has kept hidden--and the terrible secret that tore her family apart. Bighearted and trenchantly observant, The Bookshop of Yesterdays is a lyrical story of family, love and the healing power of community. It´s a love letter to reading and bookstores, and a testament to how our histories shape who we become.