"The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry"

Another romance with a book loving East Indian protagonist and valuable heirloom is "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand".

Reading list:

Old School by Tobias Wolff
The Red Pony
“Diamond” breathes like an enchanted garden gnome.
What Feels Like the World 1985 / Richard Bausch
A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1953 / Flannery O’Connor
From the Mixed-Up Files of Ms. Basil E. Frankweiler
Charlaine Harris novels
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Dresses 1939 / Irwin Shaw
A Conversation with My Father 1972 / Grace Paley
Ann M. Martin.”
“The Beauties” by Anton Chekhov, “The Doll’s House” by Katherine Mansfield, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger, “Brownies” or “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” both by ZZ Packer, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel, “Fat” by Raymond Carver
Ironhead 2005 / Amiee Bender
The House of Sand and Fog