I think I’m on a bookstore theme when it comes to the last few books I have read.
The Words Between Us by Erin Bartels is a dual-timeline novel about a young woman trying to live anonymously due to her parents' past crimes.
As a teenager, she moves in with her grandmother and meets a boy named Peter, whose mother was the town’s high school English teacher.
Together, they read a series of classics from his mother's collection. After the death of her grandmother, Robin leaves town, but not before she drops off a large box of books on Peter’s front porch.
Years later, she returns to her riverside town and opens a used bookstore.
Mysteriously, each one of the books she and Peter shared begins to arrive at her bookstore. Each book includes a poem written by teenage Robin.
As family mysteries begin to unfold, Peter and Robin’s paths cross again.
The words of Robin’s poems bring back the two years later.
The bookstore, a cantankerous old parrot, and a former classmate all add to the suspense of the story.
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