Mukesh’s wife, Naina, was the reader in the family. Mukesh is embarrassed that he doesn’t know his way around the library, and he hustles out with just any book. She’s unwilling to help him, although one other patron does suggest To Kill a Mockingbird. But, Aleisha is even rude to an elderly man, Mukesh Patel, when he stumbles into the library asking for a reading suggestion. He found peace there, and hid from their troubled home life. She’s not a book or library person, but her older brother Aidan loved that library. Although there are several people over the years who treasure a reading list, a teenager and a grieving husband and grandfather find that list helps them reach out to each other.Īleisha Thomas is bored working her summer job at the Harrow Road Library in Wembley, London. They show us the world they don’t hide it.” Sara Nisha Adams’ debut novel, The Reading List shows us loneliness and grief and community and family and love. “Books aren’t always an escape sometimes books teach us things.
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