LITERATURE + LECTURES

Blue Willow Bookshop welcomes author Kaya McLaren (Church of the Dog) for a return visit. She'll be here to discuss and sign her newest novel, On the Divinity of Second Chances.

Kaya McLaren, author of CHURCH OF THE DOG, celebrates moments of pure beauty and wonder in her widely anticipated second novel, ON THE DIVINITY OF SECOND CHANCES.

Overflowing with a zany and spirited cast of characters, it revels in the miracle of second chances as an extended family searches for true contentment.

In ON THE DIVINITY OF SECOND CHANCES, Anna and Phil reinvent their marriage. Anna rediscovers her beauty, and Phil charts a new path for himself now that he’s no longer a master of the bond market. Olive, their eldest daughter recreates her life when she discovers she’s pregnant and reassesses what it is she wants out of life, while their youngest daughter, Jade’s second chance relates to reincarnation and more esoteric matters. Forrest, their youngest and only son, made a fatal mistake as a teenager, and has lived in self-imposed solitary confinement ever since. An act of nature helps catapult him into a new chapter of his life. Anna’s mother, Pearl, receives a humbling opportunity to start anew with a feuding neighbor, and her special friend, Beatrice, gets an opportunity to experience family as she never has before.

Kaya McLaren teaches art and lives on the east slope of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State, with her dog, Big Cedar.