Nikki High's family was nervous about her starting a new business, but she was determined to honor Butler's legacy. Octavia Bookshelf opens Feb. 18
High settled on the store name because she always wondered what would be on Butler’s bookshelf at home if she could have ever peeked in. . High wanted her shop to feel as curated and intimate as that imagined shelf. She speculated that Butler, “our queen of Pasadena,” would have stocked the classics — James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes.
High believes everyone should have an “Octavia” in their lives — “people that have collections of books that make you curious and excited to read.” “Once he realized it was me, his face just dropped and he said, ‘I don’t think this is the right space for you,’ and I just said, ‘OK, thank you,’ and I got back in my car and sobbed,” said High, who is Black. “I was so humiliated.”
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