![]() Fikry with the name of a piece of literature, and the introduction to each chapter includes notes A.J. Zevin titles each chapter in The Storied Life of A.J. ![]() gets sick and dies at the end of the novel, he does so having learned that to live as an island unto oneself, even an island filed with books, is not to live fully. He succeeds on both fronts, marrying Amelia and creating a family for Maya. spends a good portion of the novel simultaneously trying to devise a way to reconnect with Amelia and attempting to provide Maya with an idyllic childhood. Hardly the dating scene’s most likely suitor, A.J. notices something in Amelia Loman he hadn’t seen before: a similarity in their souls. Their unlikely partnership comes under fire years later when A.J., out of pure boredom, finally attempts to read the book Amelia so vehemently recommended all those years ago, The Late Bloomer. She is bright, loves books, and becomes his adopted daughter and raison d’être. Shortly thereafter, A.J.’s story takes a surprising turn when a two-year old girl named Maya is abandoned in his bookstore. ![]() A.J.’s self-pity only worsens when he realizes that someone stole his rare copy of Edgar Allen Poe’s Tamerlane during one of his drunken stupors. Though he regrets his poor treatment of Amelia, he feels worse for himself. Fikry's (Kunal Nayyar) life is not turning out as he expected as he struggles both emotionally and financially. ![]() Grieving and reading are the only events to punctuate his otherwise monotonous existence. Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, bookstore owner A.J. ![]()
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