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Visit her website: www.randysuecoburn.com

The Chuckanut Radio Hour

Poet: Kevin Murphy

Musical guest: Brother Dalton's Euphonic Elixir

Venue: Fairhaven Village Green

Tickets: $5.  Includes admission to Summer Outdoor Movie on the Fairhaven Green that evening (Vicky Cristina Barcelona).  

FREE tickets to the first 20 people who pre-purchase a copy of A Better View of Paradise from VB.

The Chuckanut Radio Hour is Village Books' monthly radio variety show which is recorded live and features live music, the poetry corner, author interviews, and an episode of "The Bellingham Bean."  Guest authors have included David Guterson, Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth George, Susan Vreeland, Garrison Keillor, Ivan Doig, JA Jance, and Stephanie Kallos.  In August we're excited to welcome Randy Sue Coburn.  We ask that everyone be seated by 6:45pm for the 7:00pm recording.

A Better View of Paradise is a deeply satisfying novel that explores the tender bond between fathers and daughters, and celebrates the redemptive power of forgiveness and love—sometimes found in the most unexpected places.  Randy Sue Coburn began her career as a journalist whose work appeared nationally.  Her screenplays include Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, the 1994 film about Dorothy Parker that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won Jennifer Jason Leigh the National Society of Film Critics Award for best actress. This is her third novel. 

A Better View of Paradise (Hardcover)

By Randy Sue Coburn

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9780345490360
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ballantine Books, 07/01/2009

A deeply satisfying novel that explores the tender bond between fathers and daughters, and celebrates the redemptive power of forgiveness and love--sometimes found in the most unexpected places
Thirty-six-year-old Stevie Pollack has earned fame and praise for her landscape architecture projects, though critics complain she's too formal, too rigid. But when her boyfriend abruptly drops her, and her Chicago lakefront development project is panned, Stevie flees to Hawaii, where she spent her childhood with her emotionally distant father.
Hank Pollack has returned to the islands for a very different reason; he's dying. As father and daughter mend fences, Stevie discovers new emotional depths within her father as well as a startling, hidden past.
Shocking revelations force Stevie to undergo a personal transformation both uncertain and exciting. With Hank's help--and the very agreeable attentions of a handsome local veterinarian--Stevie learns to surrender her inhibitions and seize every beautiful day in a reconfigured paradise.

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