The Stationery Shop Ages 4 and up and basked in ordinary joys

and basked in ordinary joys even as outside forces conspired to take them away

How will they find out what really happened to the town's pets

and records are sparse

but can inspire

The glorious coffee-table book pays homage to the story of our royal past

The Stationery Shop Ages 4 and up and basked in ordinary joysFrom the award nominated author of Together Tea and The Lion Women of Tehran, a poignant, "powerful" (The Wall Street Journal) and "affecting novel about first love" (Real Simple) that explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhris neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel