![]() ![]() ![]() The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is a big-hearted, witty book about books, friendship, love-and always being open to the unexpected. And what choice do the residents of Broken Wheel have but to take care of the bewildered tourist? And what choice does Sara have, faced with a town where nobody reads along with her desire to honour her friend, but to set up the perfect bookshop with all the books she and Amy shared? And then observe as the townsfolk are, one by one, transformed in unexpected ways. ![]() But when she arrives, she finds her house empty, the funeral guests just heading home. ![]() After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara-mousy, disheveled-who has never been anywhere has lived solely for her work in a beloved bookshop which has just closed its doors for the last time-courageously decides to accept her unknown friend's invitation to visit. It all started with a correspondence between two very different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy small-town Broken Wheel, Iowa. Listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend (2015) is the debut novel by Katarina Bivald. ![]()
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