![]() ![]() Claire’s editor wants her to write a 5,000-word article about the similarities between this rare “Blackberry Winter” storm and the one that hit in 1933. ![]() A late-season storm has hit the Emerald City in May. She will never see her son again.įlash forward to present-day Seattle, where Claire Aldridge is working for the Seattle Herald as a reporter writing feature stories. The only thing she finds, in a mad search for Daniel, is his abandoned teddy bear, in the snow behind the apartment complex. When she returns the next morning, the apartment is empty. Vera Ray, a hard-working and nearly destitute mother, leaves her three-year-old son Daniel alone in their hardscrabble apartment as she heads for a night shift of cleaning rooms at the Olympic Hotel. And it just so happens that a hotel serves as a key stage prop in both of these imaginative tales.īlackberry Winter begins in May of 1933 when the city of Seattle is hit with an unexpected snowstorm. Like Ford’s bestseller, Blackberry Winter is set in Seattle and involves current-day characters looking back at things that happened decades earlier. If you read and loved the novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, there’s a very good chance that you’ll feel the same way about Sarah Jio’s new novel, Blackberry Winter. ![]()
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