Neighbors of Nothing Much
Our story tonight is read by Mara Wilson and it’s called “Ship in a Bottle.” It’s a story about a crate of bequests ready to be unwrapped. It’s also about the dark bark of oak trees after a storm, garden benches waiting to be sat on and the ordinary magic of handmade things.
Like so many people, I first knew Mara through the stories she helped bring to life on screen, but over the years, I’ve come to admire her just as much as a writer, a storyteller, and voice actor/audiobook narrator. In fact, she beautifully voices a part of my new audiobook On the Street Where You Live.