Author Event: Saturday, May 10, 2025 from 11am to 2pm

Please join us on Saturday, May 10, 2025 from 11am to 2pm when author Kay Smith-Blum will be signing copies of Tangles.

About the book:

A love story wrapped in a mystery, this stunning Cold War home-front tale reveals the devastating costs of the birth of the nuclear age, and celebrates the quiet courage of wronged women, the fierce determination of fatherless sons, and the limitless power of the individual. TANGLES is a genre-defying must-read for our time.

 When a harpooned whale offers proof the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is endangering all life in the region, Luke Hinson, a brash young scientist, seizes the chance to avenge his father’s death, only to discover that the disappearance of his former neighbor, Mary, a decade prior, may be tied to the government-sanctioned harmful practices. 

About the author:

Kay Smith-Blum, a former fashionista and Seattle School Board President, is a fan of mid-20th-century history albeit debunking its tropes as she writes. An odd dream and the recent upheaval over leaking radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Nuclear site compelled her to write, TANGLES, named 2024 Book of the Year by the Literary Global Book Awards and Best Debut Fiction by the American Writing Awards 2024. Smith-Blum, a sunrise writer, has lived in Seattle for four decades. She works out her writer’s block in her sons’ gardens and the nearest lap pool.