Kat Gardiner (Little Wonder) with Sea of Bees and Rose Droll

Born in Oklahoma, raised in the Pacific Northwest, and currently based in Detroit, author Kat Gardiner carries a restlessness through her writing that’s been honed by a lifelong search for roots. Her debut collection of short fiction, Little Wonder, fictionalizes the experience of opening and closing a music venue and café with her husband in the small Pacific Northwest town of Anacortes, Washington in 2008. An adult coming-of-age story told in fragments, Little Wonder explores the bittersweet love affair that takes place between despair and hope whenever you try with all your heart to do something you believe in, and fail.

Kat Gardiner reads excerpts from Little Wonder along with acoustic performances by Sea of Bees & Rose Droll.