Pike Place Book

When the seven members of the young Johnson family wander into a new coffee bean shop with a naked-mermaid logo and a strange-sounding name, little do they know that Starbucks will someday become one of the world's biggest companies. The year is 1971, and Seattle's own musician, Jimi Hendrix, has just died from a drug overdose -- just months before the city's first Bumbershoot music festival ("Festival '71"). Written in the voice of a ten-year-old girl, Pike Place begins in the Eastern Washington town of Richland, home of the Hanford nuclear plant and the Manhattan Project. When the family moves into the "Seattle City Limits," the kids explore the city on foot and on their Honda mini bikes. But then the unimaginable happens: one day, one of the Johnson children, 16-year-old Angela, disappears -- and magical play lands become forbidden woods, suspicion clouds every interaction, and even Pike Place Market itself stirs up feelings of uncertainty and fear. Pike Place is a story of innocence and innocence lost. It is a quest for what was -- for closure, for reconciliation, for a return to a place that only exists in the memory.Read More