The new novel from the bestselling author of
Those Who Save Us
THE STORMCHASERS
Jenna Blum
Dutton/ Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
$25.95 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-525-95155-1
Published May 27, 2010
Fiction set in the Midwest and Great Plains / family relationships
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How far would you go to protect a sibling — and at what cost to yourself?
In Jenna Blum’s first novel since her bestseller Those Who Save Us, twins are forced to confront a violent secret from their past. This most intimate and mysterious of family relationships plays out against the thrilling and terrifying backdrop of extreme weather — tornadoes racing across the Great Plains.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
In Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum proved herself a master storyteller with brilliant insight into the spectrum of human emotion shared between mother and daughter in a relationship fraught with secrets and guilt. Now, in her powerful and provocative second novel, Jenna turns her sights to the most intimate and mysterious of family relationships—that between twins—and asks the question: How far would you go to protect a sibling—and at what cost to yourself?
Karena Jorge is at her desk at the Minneapolis Ledger when she gets a call from a mental health ward in Wichita, Kansas. Her brother, Charles, who suffers from bipolar disorder, has just been admitted, and they need Karena to come pick him up. Karena hasn’t seen or spoken to her brother in nearly twenty years. As teenagers, Karena, had always been the one to protect and look out for Charles, but as Charles begins to refuse medication and his manic tendencies worsen, Karena finds herself caught between her loyalty to her brother and her fear for his life. Always obsessed with the weather—enraptured by its magical unpredictability that seemed to mirror his own impulses—Charles begins chasing storms, and his behavior grows increasingly erratic… until a terrifying storm chase with Karena ends with deadly consequences, rending apart the twins and changing both of their lives forever.
Now, two decades later, Karena is plunged into a maelstrom of guilt, anger, love, shame. She goes to Kansas to retrieve her brother—only to discover that Charles has lied to the doctors, gotten medication that could make him dangerously manic, and disappeared again. Karena, who’s used every reporter’s tool at her disposal to try and track down her brother, knows she has only one last chance of finding him: the storms. Wherever the tornadoes are, that’s where he’ll be. Though terrified of severe weather herself, Karena joins a professional storm chase tour, and, forced to confront the violent secret from her past she had long since buried, Karena sets off on a Great Plains odyssey to find her brother before he does further damage to himself—or to somebody else.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jenna Blum is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Those Who Save Us. She lives in Boston, MA, and teaches creative writing.
