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And there are books. Readers know that, when their heart hurts with loss or absence, then a book that they have read before can lessen the ache. Readers, faced with a new experience, find a book to help them navigate: a travel guide to a new city, say, but also a novel set there.
Readers give books to other readers, telling them, this will make you laugh, or, read this, please, so we can talk about it. Here you are, readers say, I don't know why but this made me think of you.
But what about when the pain is too generalised, or too acute, or too strange for us to self-diagnose? What happens when the new pain cannot be cured with the old medicine? Or when the problem seems too trivial to mention – we are not dying, we are not even coughing, we have no right to claim we are suffering – or too great to fix?
What if reading itself feels like a chore, or someone who has always found solace in books suddenly cannot find the energy or the empathy to so much as pick up a favourite paperback?
That's when a bookseller can help you.