- Street:
- Leopold's Crystal Ballroom
- Additional:
- 1224 Cornwall Avenue
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
The Chuckanut Radio Hour is a radio variety show that began in January, 2007 and is regulary broadcast on KMRE LP 102.3 FM. You may listen to the programs in rotation each Saturday evening at 6pm and each Sunday evening at 9pm. You may listen to KMRE onlineat the times the show plays or...anytime. The show's first guest was Erik Larson and has since included William Dietrich, Elizabeth George, J.A. Jance, Sherman Alexie, Tom Robbins and Garrison Keillor, among manyothers.
Our featured September guest will be Carol Cassella, author of the bestselling novel Oxygen, with her new book Healer. Our resident poet, Kevin Murphy, will be in the Poets' Corner, Alan Rhodes will grace us with another humorous slice-of-life essay, the crew at "The Bellingham Bean" will likely get into another fine mess, and you'll be entertained by the evening's musical guest. Tickets are $5 each and are available at Village Books and online at Brown Paper Tickets.
About Healer
Physician and novelist Carol Cassella follows her national bestselling debut, Oxygen, with a compelling work that grapples with the issues affecting families in the wake of this economic recession. Cassella focuses on developing tensions between a husband and wife and their teenage daughter as they begin to lose everything they have taken for granted—financial security, a beautiful home, and social status. They must remake their lives, as the wife (a trained physician who’s never used her medical degree) re-learns medicine in rural Washington. Amidst the marital upheaval, they must help their daughter cope with painful adjustments, face the hard truths that their wealth had previously masked, and redefine their marriage in the context of love and acceptance of the new reality.
As in her previous novel, Oxygen—which the Denver Post called “a sparkling literary work”—Cassella has crafted a compelling story that blends graceful writing with persuasive storytelling. With its clear-eyed depiction of the modern American family in crisis and the challenges that doctors face on a daily basis, Healer is a compulsively readable work of great compassion and insight and is sure to resonate with readers.
About Carol Cassella
An English major turned physician, Carol Cassella currently practices anesthesiology in Seattle and is a freelance medical writer specializing in global public health advocacy for the developing world. She is the mother of four children, and is working on her third novel
