Bookstore Girls: A Novel

Can two very different women put aside their differences to save the bookstore they love?

The exciting Japanese bestseller is now available in America for the first time.

Riko Nishioka is assistant manager of the flagship Pegasus bookstore in Kichijoji. After working her way up from a part-time position, she is now, aged forty, a respected figure in the Japanese publishing industry. But she has a nemesis.

Aki Kitamura, twenty-seven, has waltzed in as a full-time employee thanks to her fam...