Telegraph Avenue

Michael Chabon's new book, Telegraph Avenue, is in our store. (And available on our website.) This book will be of interest to anyone who loves Black Bear Books, as it is the story of a small independent store whose existence is being threatened by the arrival of a megastore. But even if you really couldn't care less about the fate of small independent businesses, Telegraph Avenue is still a good read. Here's one of my favorite passages:

“Archy was tired of Nat, and he was tired of Gwen and of her pregnancy with all the unsuspected depths of his insufficiency that it threatened to reveal. He was tired of Brokeland, and of black people, and of white people, and of all their schemes and grudges, their frontings, hustles, and corruptions. Most of all, he was tired of being a holdout, a sole survivor, the last coconut hanging on the last palm tree on the last little atoll in the path of the great wave of late-modern capitalism, waiting to be hammered flat.”

Amen.

Here is the New York Times review, if you need more convincing. This book would make a great Christmas gift (it's not too early, you know) for any Michael Chabon fan, or anyone who is trying to keep a small business alive. And the great thing about giving books as gifts is that you can read them before you wrap them. (Oops, did I type that out loud?)

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