Cayla

“Every family has its unspoken stories.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“After her first book was successful and she received pleas from children around the country to continue the story, she said, I began to think what a wonderful childhood I had had. How I had seen the whole frontier, the woods, the Indian country of the great plains, the frontier towns, the building of railroads in wild, unsettled country, homesteading and farmers coming in to take possession. I realized that I had seen and lived it all—all the successive phases of the frontier, first the frontiersman, then the pioneer, then the farmers and the towns. Then I understood that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history. That the frontier was gone, and agricultural settlements had taken its place when I married a farmer. It seemed to me that my childhood had been much richer and more interesting than that of children today, even with all the modern inventions and improvements.”
― Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

“It's difficult seeing parents for who they are rather than who we want them to be.”
― Amy Meyerson, The Bookshop of Yesterdays

“But as much as she loved reading the story, no one had prepared her for the end being so bittersweet. No one told her finishing the book would leave her so bereft. It was as though she’d said goodbye for the last time to a close friend.”
― Madeline Martin, The Last Bookshop in London