Eagle Harbor Book Company will welcome back former staff bookseller Kristy Webster to talk about her new book “The Gift of an Imaginary Girl: Coco & Other Stories” at the store at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21.

The event is free and open to the public.

In this new collection of magical realism tales, author and artist Webster offers hope and inspiration to those who never really imagined they fit in. Coco is the name that a young girl assigns to her deformity, a third arm, with which she is born. Coco is able to turn despair into joy and impact an entire village, effusing everyone with hope and inspiration, until her own transformation takes place.

Other stories are equally fantastical and are illustrated by the artist.

Webster graduated from Evergreen State College and earned her MFA in creative writing from Pacific Lutheran University. Her work has appeared in a multitude of online journals, including Lunch Ticket, Pithead Chapel, The Feminist Wire, Shark Reef Literary Magazine, Pacifica Literary Review, The Molotov Cocktail, Connotation Press and A Fly in Amber. Her work is also featured in two print anthologies by GirlChild Press, “A Woman’s Work” and “Just Like a Girl.” She lives in Prosser.