Sane Section 6 Fan

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

I’m reading The Stationary Shop, and I know it has an unhappy ending, but already I’m finding myself wanting to just pluck the happy and romantic parts out into a different story. The initial premise is so endearing and beguiling and something I would absolutely devour if it was set up as a romance. (A boy and a girl fall in love in the quiet aisles of a bookstore in 1953 Tehran? Please. Come on. He inscribes a journal for her with a Rumi quote?? PLEEEEASE. Project me to the alternate universe where they end up together oh my GOD)