The Road to Enchantment, Kaya McLaren
The Road to Enchantment, Kaya McLaren
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The Road to Enchantment

Author: Kaya McLaren

Narrator: Amy McFadden

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vibrance Press

Published: 10/05/2022


Synopsis

As a young girl, Willow watched her mother leave their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived.

And with that, she and Willow set off to New Mexico, to a new life, to a world of arroyos and canyons bordering an Apache reservation. Willow was devastated. Her eccentric mother believed in this new life and set about starting a winery and goat ranch. But for Willow, it meant initially being bullied and feeling like an outsider. Today, as a grown woman, Willow much prefers Los Angeles and her job as a studio musician. But things tend to happen in threes: her mother dies, her boyfriend dumps her, and Willow discovers she is pregnant.

The DeVine Winery and Goat Ranch is all she has left, even if it is in financial straits and unmanageable back taxes. There is something, though, about the call of “home.” She's surprised to find that her Apache best friend Darrel along with the rest of the community seems to think she belongs far more than she ever thought she did. Can Willow redefine what home means for her, and can she make a go of the legacy her mother left behind?

Told with Kaya McLaren’s humor and heart, The Road to Enchantment is a story about discovering that the last thing you want is sometimes the one thing you need.

About Kaya McLaren

Kaya McLaren is also author of On the Divinity of Second Chances and Church of the Dog. She lives and teaches third and fourth graders on the east slope of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State. When Kaya’s not working, she likes to telemark ski, sit in hot springs, moonlight hike, and play in lakes with her dog, Big Cedar.


Reviews

This book is the story of Willow, whose boyfriend dumps her, she learns that her mother has died, and she travels to New Mexico to wrap up her affairs and finds out she's pregnant. I enjoyed it. I got this book as an advance uncorrected proof.......more

Goodreads review by CL on December 27, 2016

Willow moved away as soon as she could from a mother who she did not always understand. Willow’s mother left her father and moved her to the middle of nowhere on the border of the Apache reservation where she did not fit in and was not always welcome. Now her mother has died and she decides to take......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on February 05, 2017

The Road to Enchantment by Kaya McLaren is not all that enchanting. In this novel, Ms. McLaren tells the story of a young girl Willow, who is torn from her home and uprooted to a farm in New Mexico where she knows no one. It is hot and dirty and it is in the middle of nowhere. And her mother doesn't......more

Goodreads review by Sophie "Beware Of The Reader" on February 04, 2017

4 to 4,5 stars An ARC has been kindly given by St Martin’s Press via NetGalley.com in exchange for an honest review. I did not know this author at all. I had never heard of her via my Goodreads friends or any Amazon recommendation or anything. The book caught my attention with its pretty cover. W......more

Goodreads review by Dorine on February 04, 2017

Coming of age reflection mixes with picking up the pieces after loss in THE ROAD TO ENCHANTMENT by Kaya McLaren, one woman’s growth through a broken childhood to become a healed, well-balanced adult. I loved the isolated setting near an Apache reservation, full of self-reliance ingenuity, which enco......more