![]() Roger, it turns out, is passionate about books, loving them with an almost ferocious intensity, and making it his mission to educate and enlighten everyone he can with the wisdom and joy of literature. ![]() Parnassus on Wheels is the perfectly charming story of Helen McGill, a stodgy spinster, fed up with keeping house for her brother (a gentleman farmer who has had some literary success), who impulsively purchases a bookshop on wheels from a strange little man named Roger Mifflin, and begins touring around New England with him, his horse, and his dog, finding adventure and happiness in the process. Somehow you don’t expect a 99 year-old debut novel, written by a man in his 20s, to be such a plainly feminist book. NOVELS: Parnassus on Wheels & The Haunted Bookshop ![]()
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