Kirkus Reviews | My Trip to Seattle = New Memories For A Reader

Readers all know a book can take them far away from their normal lives, to
places only glimpsed in stories that seem exotic to our ordinary and usually, at
least to us, mundane lives. A book can take a few hours and transform them into
an adventure set in a palace or space ship, perhaps sweep us back in time to a
medieval castle or trap us in a world inhabited by shape-shifters. Or perhaps
we’ll witness a romance for the ages. Or worse, at least for me, a series of
misunderstandings which seem to take forever to be resolved. Seriously, can’t
they just talk to each other? But there are novelists who are able to take
everyday life in a certain place and imbue it with glamor that readers will
enjoy. Growing up, the setting that grasped me most was Seattle: It embodied a
glamor that was as far away as possible from the normalcy of Eastern
Pennsylvania, and yet was still a part of the United States.

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