![]() However, condensed into a single, 105-minute film, neither Zevin, director Hans Canosa or his game cast can make the narrative feel like anything but a cloying Lifetime melodrama. And maybe if the book had been adapted into a miniseries, those same plot points would have had the room to breathe. ![]() In novel form, Zevin, who also adapted the screenplay, gets away with so many plot threads by weaving them in a way that makes even their most farfetched intersections feel like fate’s grand design. That plot description alone already sounds like a lot to cover-and that’s without mentioning subplots about A.J.’s sister-in-law, Ismay (Christina Hendricks) and her famous novelist husband, Daniel Parrish (Scott Foley). ![]() raises Maya over the next dozen or so years, he opens up again, finding a friend in the town’s Police Chief Lambiase ( David Arquette) and a budding romance with Amy (Lucy Hale), a sales rep from a small publishing house who visits him seasonally. However, his life changes when a troubled young woman leaves her toddler, Maya (Charlotte Thanh Theresin), in his care. Kunal Nayyar (who most viewers will recognize from The Big Bang Theory) plays Fikry, the owner of a failing bookstore on a remote Massachusetts island who starts the novel as a grieving widower. So, of course, it’s now been adapted into a film. A book essentially about the joy of reading, its whimsical tone and sprawling narrative delighted book lovers. ![]() Back in 2014, writer Gabrielle Zevin’s slim novel, The Storied Life of A.J. ![]()
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