People's Co-op Bookstore

Then one day the child turned to his mother and asked, Mommy, what's a bookstore? And the mother, who was a child herself once and who, as a child, went inside these stores to warm up, only to emerge one afternoon with a book given to her by a keen-eyed clerk, a book that changed her life, said as much.

(Photo by Larry Cohen of a reading unrelated to this text.)