When Aleisha’s family suffers a devastating event, Aleisha looks to Mukesh to help her pick up the pieces, but he’s not sure he’s the person she needs. Meanwhile, Aleisha begins relying on Mukesh as the only stable adult in her life. It seems this budding relationship is just the thing to save Mukesh from his continued grief over his late wife. When Mukesh returns to tell Aleisha how much he enjoyed Mockingbird, they decide to create an impromptu book club. She also decides to read every book on the list herself, rationalizing that it will help pass the long days in the library. Even so, when she stumbles on a handwritten reading list tucked into a just-returned book, she impulsively uses it as a way to apologize to Mukesh, recommending the first book, To Kill a Mockingbird. She regrets her behavior almost immediately, but she’s more focused on difficulties in her home life, including her absentee father and her mentally fragile mother. As he pushes for a suggestion, she becomes defensive, even rude. When Mukesh, an older man who's recently lost his wife, visits the library seeking a book recommendation, Aleisha has little to offer.
An aging widower and a lonely teenage girl form an unlikely friendship by bonding over books.Īleisha works at the Harrow Road Library in North London not for her love of books, but because she needs the money.
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