Archive of the Afternoon Light

Eleanor, who ran the town library for forty years, inherits an attic chest of ephemeral things—programs, menus, postcards—from the women who frequented her reading groups. She recruits three friends from her era—a retired teacher, a former midwife, and a streetwise baker—to form an archive circle. Their experiment: instead of cataloguing every object, they pull out the emotional essences of the af...