Sun, Sep 27
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
MaryFrank Sanborn, The Lightning Field
The Lightning Field is a compelling, luminous read for anyone who has ever felt “cracked and broken” and wondered if they could ever be “struck” by joy again.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 27, 2026, 4:30 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
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Order The Lightning Field ($19.95, paperback/ $24.95 hardcover) online from CWB or call the store to order
A Journey to the Heart of the Self
When the pattern of a life unravels, an electric awakening begins.
For twenty-eight years, Clair Cassidy McKendrick has lived a "half-life," tucked away in the quiet, insidious fog of the Maine coast and the safe, hollow identity of a lawyer's wife. But the patterns of her carefully ordered existence are about to unravel. On a single "synchronous" day, she learns her son is becoming a father-and her husband is leaving her for a pregnant mistress. An invitation to a fiftieth birthday celebration in the high desert of New Mexico offers a chance for an escape she never knew she needed.
Stripped of her possessions by a twist of fate and thrust into the company of a…