When A Bookstore Is Also A Safe Haven

 

Posted at 8:06AM Monday 18 Jul 2016

 

More inclusive than many churches, more communal than cultural events where people share an experience rather than a conversation, more intimate than a bar where opinions can be met with jeers or worse, independent bookstores are, I'll say it again, safe havens. They are places where questions can be asked and answers found—whether in conversation or in books that try to make sense of the unthinkable
PW