The Wild Beneath

How do you choose between two very different worlds? Two very different loves? (Tofino and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; spanning forty years, and endless time): The Wild Beneath is an extrasensory literary storm. One of the most beautiful and mysterious novels I’ve ever read. Exquisitely composed, it’s a story meant for reflection that asks us to contemplate explainable phenomena converging and competing with the unexplainable. Triggered by a cataclysmic, what-if scenario, science-grounded, that a massive 9.9 earthquake and tsunami could hit Tofino, a real region off the western coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. An “almost unbelievably beautiful” place, like this mesmerizing story envisioning the aftermath of Nature’s fury on a fictional community, Hale’s Landing. Kelly Anderson’s imagining takes a holistic, multi-dimensional approach by diving deeper than the magical realism genre into the grander supernatural mysteries of the…