The embers in the fireplace burn the color of a setting orange sun, and I’m wrapped in a quilt, seated in a big wingback chair reading a book. For me, that place is the bookstore, with its emerald green walls and the big picture windows that, at night, frame the stars twinkling above.

As June reenters the world of Bluebird Books, she starts to remember the years spent there with Ruby, and bit by bit, the bookstore and her family memories draw her in and demand her attention.Įveryone has a happy place, the scene that comes into view when you close your eyes and let your mind transport you to the dot on the globe where life is cozy, safe, warm.

When June learns that her great-aunt Ruby has passed away and left her her beloved Seattle children’s bookstore, June heads west to settle the estate, dispose of the assets, and make her way back to her intense New York job as quickly as possible.īut then something happens. She’s perfected the art of ruthless dedication to the bank’s best interests and is eminently successful - yet she’s also lonely, sad, and on the verge of physical disaster thanks to skyrocketing blood pressure. June Anderson, age 34, is a high-powered New York banker who specializes in foreclosing on small businesses. Goodnight June is a contemporary novel about a young woman finding her way and reconnecting with her family’s past. |1 .If you immediately started reciting “In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of the cow jumping over the moon…”, then you’re definitely in tune with the central motif of Goodnight June. Amidst the store's papers, June stumbles upon letters between her great-aunt and the late Margaret Wise Brown-and steps into the pages of American literature. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby's estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children's bookstore Ruby founded in the 1940s. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the 'great green room' might have come to be.

|a 'The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. |a Goodnight June : |b a novel / |c Sarah Jio. |b Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 |n SAN 282-5074

Goodnight june by sarah jio