The following description comes from the event organizer.

Michael Bourne will be reading from his new novel Blithedale Canyon, and in-conversation with local author Kristen Lunstrum. 

Trent Wolfer has blown it, in every possible way, over and over and over. And now he’s blowing it again. Fresh out of rehab, he’s back in his hometown working a dead-end job at a fast food joint and cutting out on his breaks to sneak airplane bottles of vodka and gin, until he looks up from his register one day and sees Suze Randall, his closest friend from high school, now a radiant, blonde single mother of two.

Set in a small, sun-drenched Northern California town shifting from hippie haven to moneyed paradise, Blithedale Canyon asks whether a man who has spent his whole life screwing up can stop long enough to avoid crushing a woman he loves.