New York Times best-selling author Jamie Ford to speak at Edmonds Library Friday

Jamie Ford, author

The Edmonds Library, Friends of the Edmonds Library and City of Edmonds Arts Commission present an evening with best-selling author Jamie Ford.

This is an opportunity to hear about Ford’s work as a writer and meet the author at a book signing following his presentation. The Edmonds Bookshop will have his novels available to purchase at the event.

After Hours at The Library presents an evening with author Jamie Ford, Friday, March 9, 6:30pm in the Edmonds Plaza Room, 650 Main St (above the Edmonds Library). Admission is free.

Raised in the Puget Sound region and a former resident of Seattle, Jamie Ford is the author of three fictional novels set in Seattle and the city’s International District.

His 2009 debut novel, “Hotel on The Corner of Bitter and Sweet” (Ballantine Books) received numerous accolades, including New York Times Bestseller, IndieBound NEXT List Selection, Borders Original Voices Selection, Barnes and Noble Book Club Selection, National Bestseller, and American Booksellers Association’s #1 Book Club Pick for Fall 2009/Winter 2010.

His following novels, “Songs of Willow Frost” (2013) and the recently published “Love and Other Consolation Prizes” follow in the author’s canon of the journey of the human spirit set against a historical Seattle backdrop. Ford is also the author of short stories and essays which appear in several anthologies.

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