After Hours at Dooryard Books

After Hours at Dooryard Books

Author: Cat Sebastian Listening Length: 9h 2m

1968 New York City News about the war might be keeping Patrick up at nightnews in general might be keeping Patrick up at nightbut hes doing fine. Hes sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights merrily sleeping his way through the rare book community. ...

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At the jangling of the door chimes, Patrick glances up, eager to find out what kind of lunatic goes shopping for secondhand books when the sidewalks are ankle deep in trash.

Sanitation workers have been striking for over a week and the city smells like a sewer.

Patrick hasn’t had a customer in days. It’s been amazing.

But it isn’t a customer. It’s Mrs. Kaplan, the store owner, who isn’t the kind of person to be deterred by blockades of rotting garbage or anything else.