The Last Bookstore
Sprawling used-and-new bookstore inside a former bank, with a book tunnel and a horror-novel vault.
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This guide to The Last Bookstore follows Josh Spencer from a 1996 moped accident that left him paralyzed, through years of scraping by, to the day a breakup pushed him to work almost around the clock. It traces how door after door closed on him because of his wheelchair, and how he built his own path instead, buying books at thrift stores and reselling them online from his apartment, leaning on friends to carry crates he could not lift himself.
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