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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The next morning, the phone rings as Patrick’s opening the shop. “The car won’t start,” Mrs. Kaplan says. “And I don’t have anything good to read.”

He leaves the shop in Nathaniel’s hands, gets on the subway, then walks from the station to Mrs. Kaplan’s house.

She’s waiting for him at the door and won’t let him even look at the car until he’s had coffee and some babka.

The kitchen hasn’t changed at all in the last ten years, or probably in the twenty years before that.