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Table of Contents

Guide

Minding the Store

Minding

the

Store

A BIG STORY ABOUT

A SMALL BUSINESS

ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL 2018

by Julie Gaines

Illustrated by Ben Lenovitz

Published by

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Post Office Box 2225

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515-2225

a division of

Workman Publishing

225 Varick Street

New York, New York 10014

2018 by Julie Gaines. Art

2018 by Ben Lenovitz.

All rights reserved.

Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen

Son Limited.

Design and color by Rose Wong

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gaines, Julie, author.

|

Lenovitz, Ben, illustrator.

Title: Minding the store : a big story about a small business /

by Julie Gaines ; illustrated by Ben Lenovitz.

Description: First edition.

|

Chapel Hill, North Carolina :

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018011663

|

ISBN 9781616206628

(

hardcover : alk. paper

)

Subjects: LCSH: Fishs Eddy

(

Firm

)

|

Tableware.

|

New business

enterprises

Management.

|

Stores, Retail

Management.

|

Family-owned

business enterprises

Management.

|

Entrepreneurship.

Classification: LCC HD9971.5.T324 .F574 2018

|

DDC 338.7/64270973

dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018011663

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

First Edition

&

To Vivian and Valerie, and mothers everywhere.

CONTENTS

Introduction

A pivotal moment, fifth grade, Staten Island, 1976.

Overhearing my mothers conversation with the saleslady

at the jean store while Im in the changing room.

Mother: Shes just impossible to fit.

Saleslady with heavy Staten Island accent: Yuh know,

huh problem is shes not petite, shes just really shawt.

I was no particular standout.

Jealous of my two pretty sisters and stuck at 411

when everyone else kept growing, mediocre could

have been my middle name. Instead its

.

.

. Beth.

But underneath the plaid shirts and clogs, behind the

pounds of makeup I wore on days I was trying to belong,

there inside me was a small spark of certainty that someday,

somehow, I would find a way to fit into this world.

Chapter 1

Road to Fishs Eddy

Soon after college I moved to West 15th Street.

There was a small glassware shop at the end of

the block, so I went in to buy some drinking glasses.

The boy at the register introduced himself as Dave

and said he ran the shop, which belonged to his

cousin. He said the job sort of got him out of trouble.

Whatever that meant. I introduced myself as Julie

and said I had an art degree. Whatever that meant.

I told Dave how I left Staten Island to study art and that

I made the biggest paintings in the class, which apparently

didnt make them good paintings, just very big paintings.

Dave annoyed his mother so

much that she bought him a

one-way ticket to anywhere he

wanted. So at seventeen years

old Dave came to New York City.

Dave told me about his childhood

in Miami. He said when his mother

invited her friends over for poker

night he intruded on their game,

often with a dead snake he found

in his backyard.

Dave said he was effective at scaring most

of his mothers friends, except for the friend

who was taking child psychology classes in

continuing education and asked if she could

do an independent study of Daves behavior.

That week Dave and I went

to see

The Gods Must Be

Crazy

, and from then on we

were together all the time.

I told my father about Dave but then

regretted it, because, while my father didnt

have great expectations for me career-wise,

he took a profound interest in who I dated.

An odd man came into the store and

bought a useless glass hurricane shade,

Dave said a few days later.

All I had to hear was

odd and useless.

I havent

sold one of these

the entire time I

worked here.

Oh no,

what did he

look like?

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