NW Book Lovers

Before I was an author I was, briefly, a bookseller. The summer between finishing graduate school and getting my first teaching job, I worked a Spokane’s gorgeous downtown bookstore, Auntie’s. The story I want to tell is about something that happened on my first day. I had just been trained on how to answer the phones and fill online orders, then left on my own at a desk upstairs to do both for the afternoon. The first call I fielded …