Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

Midnight at the Bright Ideas BookstoreWhen a bookshop patron dies by suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this "shocking, charming, thrilling" (Associated Press) and award winning debut novel. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she leads a meticulously ordered existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogsthe lost and lonely regulars who spend every day browsing the

Because it is

the world drastically resets

as she begins to piece together a life without her husband in his tiny hometown hamlet of farmers

and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy is an unmitigated pleasure” (Christina Baker Kline

Rosaline starts to realize the most delicious bakes come from the heart

and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves

and BOOK RIOT

how much future is actually left

the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past

With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850

It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see