DETROIT (WXYZ) — A beloved bookstore in southwest Detroit will keep its doors open, thanks to a lot of community love and support.
“We’re just really happy that we’re seen as a viable part of the literary community and that readers want us here,” said co-owner Jazmine Cooper.
27th Letter Books has everything you’d expect from a bookstore, but also plenty of authors you might not see everywhere else.
“There’s a lot of diversity and inclusion in the titles that we choose,” Cooper said.
During a tour of the store Saturday, Cooper showed off one of their latest featured titles by Jenny T. Wang, PhD called Permission to Come Home, which she said is growing in popularity.
“It’s a book for Asian Americans reclaiming their mental health,” she said. “There aren’t a lot of books that allow Asian Americans to have mental health issues or to read about mental health issues.”
The store focuses on diversity not just in the subjects of the titles they carry, but also in the authors they choose to showcase.
In late May, less than a year after opening its brick and mortar store, 27th Letter Books fell victim to online credit card fraud.
“Someone reached out, pretending to be a legitimate customer, and was ordering different books and established a relationship with us. And then we came to realize what had been ordered had been done using fraudulent cards,” said fellow co-owner Erin Pineda.
The loss was more than $35,000, she said.
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