Located in a 19th-century bank building, it has three floors, an illuminated stained glass ceiling, period light fixtures, a balcony, and two vaults full of books. The Book Vault really is one of the loveliest bookstores I’ve been to. “It’s the last copy in the midwest,” we told the three women behind the counter. Lo and behold! The Book Vault had the book. Oddly, this well-reviewed book is sold out at the Bookworm in Omaha, Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Barnes and Noble in Des Moines, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids, and Amazon and. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, it is an ecological novel that centers on trees. We had been looking for a copy of Richard Powers’s The Overstory.
And so we went to Oskaloosa, Iowa, where the Book Vault is the cornerstone of Christmas shopping. Now that my husband is out of his sling, we occasionally explore picturesque small towns on the weekend.
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