Sarah Jio. Plume, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-452-29703-6
Jio debuts with a pleasant if familiar story of a woman rebuilding after romantic and professional setbacks. A few years ago, Emily Wilson was a bestselling writer married to a loving and handsome man. Now her husband has ditched her and she's...
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Sarah Jio. Plume, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-452-29767-8
Jio’s second novel (after The Violets of March) is a saccharine romance framed around WWII and the Tahitian island of Bora-Bora. A letter found by her grandchild in the trash spurs Anne Calloway Godfrey of Seattle to recount a wartime romance and...
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Sarah Jio. Plume, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-452-29838-5
Claire Aldridge is a reporter for the Seattle Herald coping with an emotionally detached husband and the grief of a recent miscarriage. When she awakes one May morning to find Seattle blanketed in snow, she begins to write a piece about the weather...
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Sarah Jio. Plume, $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-452-29839-2
In her fourth novel, Jio (The Violets of Summer) relies on her tried-and-true, and generally successful, formula of basing the novel on a present-day protagonist unraveling mysteries from the life of a woman in the early decades of the 20th century.
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Sarah Jio. Plume, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-219699-1
Jio’s fifth novel, following The Last Camellia, explores the degree to which time and distance give comfort to those who have experienced loss. In 2008, Ada Santorini’s life in New York as deputy editor of Sunrise magazine is shaken by personal...
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Sarah Jio. Ballantine, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-101-88502-4
Jio’s (Goodnight June) newest novel explores intersections of past and present and the complexities of love. Kailey Crane, a journalist at the Seattle Herald, is happily engaged and looking forward to her future when she has encounters a homeless...
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Sarah Jio. Ballantine, $17 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-101-88508-6
Jio (All the Flowers in Paris) unfurls an extraordinary and heartfelt tale that will stay with readers long after the final page is turned. When divorced librarian Valentina “Val” Baker inherits a London bookstore from her late estranged mother,...
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