Hope at the heart of Chinatown

“An interview with Carol Lee (left) on Vitality: Iconic Images and Hidden Stories, exploring Chinatown’s resilience, heritage and how storytelling fuels its cultural and community revival.FULL STORY



Sara Blaydes

September 25th, 2025

Author of The Last Secret of Lily Adams (Lake Union, 2024), Sara Blaydes returns with The Restoration Garden (Lake Union $25.99), a novel that intertwines love, memory and the haunting beauty of an English manor’s forgotten grounds. Blaydes has been passionate about books since she was four years old, when she insisted her parents teach her to read so she could steal her brother’s comic books. Now based in British Columbia, she lives with her husband, two children and an anxious Boston terrier. She believes books are magic, summer is the best season and parsley is never optional. 9781662533198

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