num_pages: 286
description: In 2011 Sarah Jio burst onto the fiction scene with two sensational novels--The Violets of March and The Bungalow. With Blackberry Winter--taking its title from a late-season cold-weather phenomenon--Jio continues her rich exploration of the ways personal connections can transcend the boundaries of time. Seattle 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son Daniel goodnight and departs to work the night-shift at a local hotel. She emerges to discover that a May-Day snow has blanketed the city and that her son has vanished. Outside she finds his beloved teddy bear lying face-down on an icy street the snow covering up any trace of his tracks or the perpetrator's.Seattle 2010. Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge assigned to cover the May 1 blackberry winter storm and its twin learns of the unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the truth. In the process she finds that she and Vera may be linked in unexpected ways...
language: English
title: Blackberry Winter
publisher: Plume