The Wild Beneath: Kelly Anderson
The Literary Arts Bookstore & Cafe is pleased to welcome author Kelly Anderson to celebrate the release of book, The Wild Beneath.
About the book:
For readers of Wild Dark Shore and The Time Traveler’s Wife, a fierce, haunting story of one woman caught between her first love and a mysterious stranger who upends everything—and the two worlds that won’t let her go.
Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest, navigating by stars and swimming with sea creatures alongside her parents and best friend Evan. But when a tsunami shatters her world, Annie is stranded on land and forced to confront how eccentric she is. In the wreckage, she rescues a wordless man named Walker, who emits a hum only she can hear.
Their connection is instant, electric. Walker’s touch gives Annie visions of the ocean’s hidden world, a life she’s never known but feels inexplicably drawn to. Yet even as she is pulled toward him, Evan—the steadfast love who has always been there—remains on dry land, offering the stability she may have to leave behind. Annie is torn between Evan’s grounding presence and Walker’s magnetic secrets. But then, Walker vanishes, along with the answers she needs about who she really is.
Six years later, Annie has left the sea and buried the past—until Walker’s otherworldly sound returns, pulling her back toward the ocean and the life she abandoned. The truth under the water is more ancient than she ever could have known, and Annie must confront a choice that will test her heart and determine her future.
Dr. Kelly Anderson
Dr. Kelly Anderson is an award-winning academic physician with fellowships in emergency medicine and HIV. She completed the Bookends Novel Fellowship (under Meg Wolitzer and Christina Baker Kline), the Gateless Writing Academy, and is a certified Gateless writing teacher. She led writing courses for over two thousand women inside her award-winning nonprofit, Understory, designed to bring doctors back to themselves and their instincts, and she built the clinical team at Felix Health to connect over a million Canadians with primary healthcare. Kelly is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and has taught ethics, community, and belonging for over a decade. She spent her childhood swimming the beaches of British Columbia, and now lives in Ontario with her husband and two boys.
