Kim Malcom’s Aurora Books: Filling a Community Need

Published July 11, 2023

by Bonnie Lee Black

One of her fondest childhood recollections, Kim Malcolm told me last week when I interviewed her at her new bookstore in San Miguel, was of visiting bookstores with her father when she was a young girl growing up in southern California.

“All my life I’ve been a voracious reader,” she said, “and I have very romantic memories of spending time with my father in bookstores. It was almost the only time we were together because he worked so many hours. He would take me to Vroman’s bookstore in Pasadena, and it was always the best hour of my week.”

Now, today, at age seventy and retired from a long career in government in the California Bay Area, Kim is the happy and proud owner of a brand new English-language bookstore here in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, called Aurora Books.

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Aurora Books is located in the small Hacienda Plaza off of Calzada de la Aurora (#48A), near the art and design center Fabrica la Aurora, in SMA. Contact: aurorabookssma@gmail.com . The bookstore’s current hours are 10 am to 5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.