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The Books That Read You Back

Some doors close so quietly we forget our own hand was on them. Rebecca Nelson, a literature student and bookseller who helps run a romance book club, sat down to talk about what readers are looking for when they reach for romance. What unfolded was the story of her own crossing, a woman who had quietly written herself off and then, at midlife, began opening the doors again. A conversation about reading as company through change, the characters who unsettle us, and why being seen, on the page and across a bookstore counter, might be the quiet medicine underneath it all.

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