A.J. is the owner of a small bookstore. He lives in the apartment above the store.
Ever since his wife died, A.J. has been very depressed. So depressed that he occasionally gets very drunk. One evening he is passed out drunk and someone comes into the apartment and steals a very valuable, very rare first edition book of poetry.
At about the same time, a woman abandons her young child in A.J.'s bookstore. The toddler has a note from the mom explaining that she wants her little daughter to grow up in a home that values reading and books. And that she can no longer take care of the girl, whose name is Maya.
And so Maya enters in the lonely, sad middle-aged man's life. He accepts the responsibility of raising Maya and it enriches and expands his life in ways he never imagined.
I truly loved this sweet, gentle story. Although A.J. seems live under a dark cloud in the beginning, the arrival of Maya lets in fresh air and sunshine.
Book review by the Washington Post from 2014.
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