Goodnight June by Sarah Jio
The book opens with June in a
hospital bed, desperate to check herself out and get back to work. She’s only 35, a vice president of the bank
in New York City, and suffering from severe high blood pressure because of her
job. She is the bad guy from the bank
that liquidates small businesses that can’t keep up with their mortgage
payments and the fast pace, and the stress, is getting to her. Of course that’s when the letter arrives in
the mail – she’s inherited Bluebird Books, her aunt’s beloved bookstore in
Seattle. A place where June and her
sister Amy were practically raised. June
decides she needs a break from her life in New York and returns to Seattle to
look into selling the bookstore. But she
can’t. She loves the place too
much. Can she sell? Or can she get the store out of debt and
stay?
Along with dealing with financial
and personal crises June is on a treasure hunt from her Aunt Ruby. Ruby hid letters between herself and Brownie
(Margaret Wise Brown) in first editions throughout the bookstore. Could Bluebird Books and Aunt Ruby have been
the inspiration behind the iconic children’s book Goodnight Moon?
