Cat Sebastian After Hours at Dooryard Books Paperback

1968 New York CityNews about the war might be keeping Patrick up at nightnews in general might be keeping Patrick up at nightbut hes doing fine. Hes sure of it. He gets to spend his days selling books in the gayest neighborhood on the East Coast and his nights merrily sleeping his way through the rare book community. But when he takes in a drifter who seems to be hiding something, and his best friend and her newborn move into the apartment upstairs, his life gets turned on its head. A sleepy little bookstore should be the perfect place for Nathaniel to lie low, waiting for his past to catch up with him, but it turns out Dooryard Books is full of political radicals and antiwar agitators. If the FBI isnt actively surveilling this place, it will be. Nathaniel should go anywhere else. The last thing he expects is to like these subversives. Theres a grieving folk musician and her babya demon of a child who will only sleep if Nathaniel, of all people, holds her. Theres a pair of rabblerousing teenagers who, upsettingly, seem to be right about everything. And then theres Patrick, who cant walk past anyone who needs his helpand who is perplexingly determined to help Nathaniel. As the world balances on the precipice of something new and scary and maybe even hopeful, Patrick needs to decide what hes willing to risk for this chaotic new community hes accidentally created. And Nathaniel needs to figure out whether he has a place in this messy, flawed worldand whether he can believe he... | Cat Sebastian After Hours at Dooryard Books Paperback