Shut Up and Read : Jeannine A. Cook

Jeannine A. Cook A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop Hardcover BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/African American & Black The author of It’s Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how she left an abusive past to build a bookshop that survived the Covid pandemic and became an international sensation. Jeannine Cook always thought she’d open a bookshop in her old age. Raised by a blind librarian, books were integral to her life, and she expected she would eventually write one as well. Instead, Jeannine found herself a burnt-out workaholic with three jobs and no time to read or write, feeling like she hadn't fulfilled her purpose.In her journal, Jeannine began an imaginary dialogue with Harriet Tubman, “Q&As” she dubbed Conversations with Harriett. Jeannine wondered how Harriet became a “wade through waist-high water in the winter: type of woman—and how she could become one too.On February 1, 2020, Jeannine fulfilled her dream and opened a bookstore in Philadelphia which she named after her hero an