Day: June 8, 2026

Jill Nunn Burton’s The Wish Book is more than a historical novel; it is an intimate portrait of family, ambition and the fragile ways dreams survive loss. At its emotional center is Robert May, a father trying to balance creative success at Montgomery Ward with the deeper responsibility of raising his daughter, Barbie, after the … Read more

Some stories are written to entertain. Others quietly reshape culture. And a rare few refuse to fade, carrying their meaning far beyond the moment they were created. Jill Nunn Burton’s The Wish Book belongs to that rare final category, a historical novel that explores how an idea born inside a corporate office in 1930s Chicago … Read more