https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/chipublib/rss/search?query=Evison%2C%20Jonathan%2C&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeWed, 07 Oct 2026 21:42:48 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1685920https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1685920Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1685920126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616202613/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2619471https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2619471Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2619471126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593473542/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1736010https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1736010Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1736010126LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410484062/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=A Seattle Times Bestseller
One of The Washington Post’s 10 Noteworthy Books for January
One of The Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in January
One of The Seattle Times’ 24 Books to Look Out for in 2025
One of Kirkus' Best 20 Books to Read in January
The extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, and survive-it-all, opposites-attract love
Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador, Megs. Through the years, the Winters have fallen in and out of lockstep, and from their haunting losses and guarded secrets, a dependable partnership has been forged.
But when Ruth’s loose tooth turns out to be something much more malicious, the beautiful, reliable life they’ve created together comes to a crisis. As Ruth struggles with her crumbling independence, Abe must learn how to take care of her while their three living children question his ability to look after his wife. And once again, the couple has to reconfigure how to be there for each other.
In this bighearted and profound portrait of a marriage, Jonathan Evison explores seventy years of big moments in subtle ways, elegantly braiding the Winters’ turbulent history with their present-day battles, showing us how the oddly paired college kids became parents, fell apart and back together, and grew into the Abe and Ruth of today. Endlessly heartwarming and moving, The Heart of Winter is a reminder that true love lives in small, everyday moments.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10648831https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10648831Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10648831980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593473566/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=“Insightful, richly entertaining . . . Evison writes humanely and with good humor of his characters, who, like the rest of us, muddle through, too often without giving ourselves much of a break. A lovely, forgiving character study that’s a pleasure to read.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
 
With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her late husband had planned. But what she hoped would be a voyage leading to a new lease on life becomes a surprising and revelatory journey into Harriet’s past. 
Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at the helm. Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother-daughter relationship, nothing is what it seems in this tale of acceptance, reexamination, and forgiveness.
 
“A terrific novel, funny and moving, wistful and wise. Jonathan Evison’s writing crackles on the page.” —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins
 
“This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! is as sweet as it is inventive, profound as it is hilarious, unflinching as it is bighearted.” —Maria Semple, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette
 
“[An] irresistible, inventive novel full of important ideas about how we live our lives as parents, children, partners, and human beings . . . Evison is a ridiculously gifted storyteller.” —Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins
 
“A generous and wise tale, told with Evison’s trademark verve and charisma, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! is a deeply felt and deeply comforting novel.” —Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers
 
“This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! has all the wonderful snap and sizzle we’ve come to expect from Jonathan Evison’s work, and as much heart as any novel I’ve read in recent years.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
“Both uplifting and melancholy, funny and thought-provoking, this entertaining read speaks directly to the importance of acceptance and healing.” —Booklist]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2180365https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2180365Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2180365980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616205362/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1476321https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1476321Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1476321126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616200398/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1494596https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1494596Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1494596126EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616201852/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2385781https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2385781Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2385781126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593184127/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2313900https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2313900Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2313900126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781643750101/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1995030https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1995030Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1995030126BOOK_CDA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781684413263/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1957726https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1957726Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1957726126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616202620/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2526578https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2526578Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2526578126PAPERBACKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616209230/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=Winner of the Housatonic Book Award
A New York Times Editors' Choice! 
One of Booklist’s “Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels of 2022”
One of the Los Angeles Times's “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List”

One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads
“A bighearted, widescreen American tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Masterpiece . . . The quintessential great American novel.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A vivid mosaic.”—BookPage (starred review)

Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions.  
The characters of Small World connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways, winning, breaking, and winning our hearts again. In exploring the passengers’ lives and those of their ancestors more than a century before, Small World chronicles 170 years of American nation-building from numerous points of view across place and time. And it does it with a fullhearted, full-throttle pace that asks on the most human, intimate scale whether it is truly possible to meet, and survive, the choices posed—and forced—by the age.
 
The result is a historical epic with a Dickensian flair, a grand entertainment that asks whether our nation has made good on its promises. It dazzles as its characters come to connect with one another through time. And it hits home as it probes at our country’s injustices, big and small, straight through to its deeply satisfying final words.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6022284https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6022284Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6022284980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593184141/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=“A beautifully rendered and cinematic portrait of a place and its evolution through time . . . A story of survival and the love and devotion between parent and child.”
—Jill McCorkle, author of Hieroglyphics 
Dave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things: good with his hands, good at solving problems, good at staying calm in a crisis. But on the heels of his third tour in Iraq, the fabric of Dave’s life has begun to unravel. Gripped by PTSD, he finds himself losing his home, his wife, his direction. Most days, his love for his seven-year-old daughter, Bella, is the only thing keeping him going. When tragedy strikes, Dave makes a dramatic decision: the two of them will flee their damaged lives, heading off the grid to live in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest.
 
As they carve out a home in a cave in that harsh, breathtaking landscape, echoes of its past begin to reach them. Bella retreats into herself, absorbed by visions of a mother and son who lived in the cave thousands of years earlier, at the end of the last ice age. Back in town, Dave and Bella themselves are rapidly becoming the stuff of legend—to all but those who would force them to return home.
 
As winter sweeps toward the North Cascades, past and present intertwine into a timeless odyssey. Poignant and profound, Legends of the North Cascades brings Jonathan Evison’s trademark vibrant, honest voice to bear on an expansive story that is at once a meditation on the perils of isolation and an exploration of the ways that connection can save us.

]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5697105https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C5697105Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5697105980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781643751719/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=One of the American Library Association's Top 10 Most Banned Books for the past two years, this award-winning coming-of-age novel takes readers into the heart and humor of a young man determined to achieve the ever-changing American dream. He just happens to find himself along the way.
“Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium.” —The New York Times Book Review
For Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew—he’s smart enough to know that he’s got to be the one to shake things up if he’s ever going to change his life. But how? He’s not qualified for much of anything. He has no particular talents, although he is stellar at handling a lawn mower and wielding clipping shears. But now that career seems to be behind him. So what’s next for Mike Muñoz?
Funny, biting, sweet, and ultimately inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison's coming-of-age novel evokes the lives of working class people with compassion and honesty. ]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3550701https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3550701Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3550701980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616208257/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1684013https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1684013Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1684013126BOOK_CD[a Novel]enghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781622318957/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1517025https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1517025Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1517025126PAPERBACKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616200824/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1387014https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1387014Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1387014126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781565129528/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1401806https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1401806Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1401806126EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781616200381/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1222800https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1222800Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1222800126PAPERBACKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781593761967/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2538655https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2538655Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2538655126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593184158/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2382233https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2382233Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2382233126BOOK_CDA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781665047913/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=A Seattle Times Bestseller
One of The Washington Post’s 10 Noteworthy Books for January
One of The Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in January
One of The Seattle Times’ 24 Books to Look Out for in 2025
One of Kirkus' Best 20 Books to Read in January
The extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, and survive-it-all, opposites-attract love
Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together—at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador, Megs. Through the years, the Winters have fallen in and out of lockstep, and from their haunting losses and guarded secrets, a dependable partnership has been forged.
But when Ruth’s loose tooth turns out to be something much more malicious, the beautiful, reliable life they’ve created together comes to a crisis. As Ruth struggles with her crumbling independence, Abe must learn how to take care of her while their three living children question his ability to look after his wife. And once again, the couple has to reconfigure how to be there for each other.
In this bighearted and profound portrait of a marriage, Jonathan Evison explores seventy years of big moments in subtle ways, elegantly braiding the Winters’ turbulent history with their present-day battles, showing us how the oddly paired college kids became parents, fell apart and back together, and grew into the Abe and Ruth of today. Endlessly heartwarming and moving, The Heart of Winter is a reminder that true love lives in small, everyday moments.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10750628https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10750628Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10750628980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593947449/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=From one of America’s greatest, most creative novelists comes Again and Again, a poignant and endlessly surprising story about love lost, found, and redeemed

Eugene “Geno” Miles is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his new nursing assistant, Angel, who is understandably skeptical of Geno’s insistence on having lived not just one life but many—all the way back to medieval Spain, where, as a petty thief, he first lucked upon true love only to lose it, and spend the next thousand years trying to recapture it.
Who is Geno? A lonely old man clinging to his delusions and rehearsing his fantasies, or a legitimate anomaly, a thousand-year-old man who continues to search for the love he lost so long ago?
As Angel comes to learn the truth about Geno, so, too, does the reader, and as his miraculous story comes to a head, so does the biggest truth of all: that love—timeless, often elusive—is sometimes right in front of us.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9674352https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9674352Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9674352980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593786673/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=Winner of the Housatonic Book Award
A New York Times Editors' Choice! 
One of Booklist’s “Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels of 2022”
One of the Los Angeles Times's “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List”

One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads
“A bighearted, widescreen American tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Masterpiece . . . The quintessential great American novel.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A vivid mosaic.”—BookPage (starred review)

Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions.  
The characters of Small World connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways, winning, breaking, and winning our hearts again. In exploring the passengers’ lives and those of their ancestors more than a century before, Small World chronicles 170 years of American nation-building from numerous points of view across place and time. And it does it with a fullhearted, full-throttle pace that asks on the most human, intimate scale whether it is truly possible to meet, and survive, the choices posed—and forced—by the age.
 
The result is a historical epic with a Dickensian flair, a grand entertainment that asks whether our nation has made good on its promises. It dazzles as its characters come to connect with one another through time. And it hits home as it probes at our country’s injustices, big and small, straight through to its deeply satisfying final words.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6021366https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6021366Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6021366980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593452219/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=