The following description comes from the event organizer.

Join Karuna Das (UW MFA '92) as he reads from and talks about the writing process for his debut novel Kat's Cradle, a sci-fi thriller and exploration of consciousness, evolution, and perspective set primarily in and around Seattle and the PNW. The author will also answer questions and sign books.

Before her brain started behaving strangely, Kat Porter’s biggest worries were her upcoming tenure review and her partner’s desire to start a family.

Then she began unlocking abilities that bewildered her doctor and attracted a shadowy research firm intent on studying her at any cost.

Aided by a group of mystics awaiting a prophet, Kat must now master her new powers before Neuro-Logic Industries and its government associates gain control of her brain, with or without the rest of her. Forced to flee her comfortable life in Seattle, Kat goes on a journey of discovery that takes her to the peaks of the Canadian Rockies and transforms her understanding of the world. What happens next might just birth an evolution in human consciousness.