Jamie Ford Books in Order

The discovery of possessions left by interned Japanese American families prompts Henry Lee to revisit his Seattle childhood. His memories return to Keiko Okabe, their youthful love, and the racial prejudices and wartime separation that shaped their lives.

In Depression-era Seattle, twelve-year-old William Eng sees an actress he believes is his lost mother. Escaping his orphanage with a friend, he searches for Willow Frost while confronting the secrets behind her screen identity and his childhood.

At Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, orphan Ernest Young discovers he is being raffled to a new home. Becoming a brothel's houseboy, he forms intimate friendships whose legacy resurfaces decades later amid his wife's illness and family secrets.

Poet Dorothy Moy seeks an experimental treatment after recognizing signs of her own distress in her daughter. Connecting with earlier generations of women in her family, she explores inherited trauma and a recurring search for love.