The Evergreen State
Is there a book you love and feel does a great job of highlighting its Washington setting? Send your suggestions and please don’t forget to tell me why you think that book is a good choice for this state. It doesn’t need to explicitly be about the state, only clearly set in it and written by someone who actually lived there. I have a bias towards books written by authors who are still living so that we can reflect more on today’s reality but I won’t turn down a classic if you make a good argument for it!
Books are in no order of preference. That they are on this list is not a reflection of my personal taste or even that I’ve read them — I want you to find what works for you.
Before the Wind by Jim Lynch, fiction
Bread Alone by Judith Ryan Hendricks, fiction / chick-lit
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter, crime novel
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelly Estes, historical fiction
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, historical fiction
The Inn at Rose Harbor by Debbie Macomber, romance
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie, short story
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, historical fiction
When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz, romance / suspense
Where’d you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple, fiction / humor
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