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The Little Paris Bookshop, by Nina George
Bibliotherapy is the semi-serious prescribing of literature—novels, poems, essays, etc.—for emotional ailments. The theory is that books can cure one of ennui, sorrow over a broken relationship, feeling overlooked, and so on. Jean Perdu, the protagonist of Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop, makes his living prescribing books to people to cure what ails them. He’s preternaturally good at putting the right book into the right hands. The only person he can’t cure is himself...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
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