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This book was one of the books that came for my Markup Book Club and it weirdly took me a lot of time to work through it. The book is told in two different time periods, one in the present day with Laura, and one through the years with Eunice. Laura works for Anthony, who collects lost things and writes short stories about each item. When he passes away, he leaves everything to Laura and requests that she do everything she can to get the lost things back to their owners to the best of her ability. Eunice, on the other hand, has lost something.

This book was very sweet and wonderful, it reminded me a lot of what I've read of "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss in the writing style which was nice. The book is peppered with short stories and I actually really enjoyed them. I typically am not a short story person but these were genuinely amazing. There's also a character named Sunshine who it's alluded to is magic, but she strikes me very much as autistic which is very cool. The book seemed a little slow at times, however, and the romance subplot was kind of boring and I didn't find myself very interested. It was hard because you knew the two stories would come together, but the anticipation didn't really seem to build to bring them together. This book was a smooth read, and one you could easily read in a day. Possibly a beach read but also a little deep for that. There were some wonderful humorous elements throughout that I enjoyed, and one of the cool things about the markup book club is that I get to see other peoples comments! I would recommend this book to others, especially people who like contemporary novels on the lighter side. I listened to the audiobook as well and it was really amazing!