The Stationery Shop

From the award-nominated author of Together Tea and The Lion Women of Tehran, a poignant, "powerful" ( The Wall Street Journal ) and "affecting novel about first love" ( Real Simple ) that explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate . Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink. Then Mr. Fakhri, with a keen i