The Stationery Shop Lisa Greenwald It was exciting

It was exciting

trapped and isolated within her older sister’s cavernous London townhouse

Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black community

scary neighbors

the more the remaining guests start to panic

The Stationery Shop Lisa Greenwald It was excitingFrom 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. Fakhris neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel