Join us for another exciting edition of The Chuckanut Radio Hour featuring New York Times best-selling author, Laurie Frankel!About this Event
This show will feature live music from Devin Champlin and Laurie Frankel will be interviewed by local author, Brenda Miller!
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her three grown children—but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.
As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubber-neckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make—and some she’s not allowed to make.
Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks—even so late in the day—can still change, and then change everything.
Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of the novels Family Family, One Two Three, Goodbye for Now, The Atlas of Love, and the Reese’s Book Club Pick This Is How It Always Is. Frankel lives in Seattle with her husband, daughter, and border collie.
Brenda Miller is the author of six essay collections and the poetry chapbook The Daughters of Elderly Women. Her work has received seven Pushcart prizes. She co-authored the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, and The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. She is Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.
Devin Champlin is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist based in Bellingham, WA. His recordings, solo and as the songwriter/frontman for Sons Of Rainier have found their way into the permanent library of hobos, widows, fry cooks, and fancy pants alike. Intimate lyrics filled with optimistic existentialism are unhurriedly floated with a wavering baritone voice over sometimes unexpected fingerpicked guitar lines. As an artist with a DIY aesthetic, he uses songwriting as a medium to create imagery- along those lines he also produces animations, videos, paintings, drawings, and prints in tandem with his musical output. In addition to writing and performing, Devin often teaches workshops on fingerpicking guitar, songwriting, and fiddle. When not nerding out on songcraft and art, Devin can be found at his day job, running a brick and mortar guitar shop in Bellingham, pulling guitars apart and putting them back together.
Feel free to reach out to Village Books and Paper Dreams for further assistance at 360-671-2626!
Event Venue
The Hotel Leo Crystal Ballroom, 1224 Cornwall Avenue, Bellingham, United States
USD 12.54 to USD 34.29
