Five-year-old Daisy Gonzalez's father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn't, and Daisy disappears.
Deborah Kennedy is a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salon, Sou'wester, Third Coast Magazine, and The North American Review. Kennedy has worked as both a reporter and editor, and also holds a master's in Fiction Writing and English Literature from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.Tornado Weather is her debut.
Tornado Weather is dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful,
and Deborah E. Kennedy writeswith the gritty poetry of Daniel
Woodrell and misfit sensibility of FlanneryO Connor. So many
characters swirl together their stories compiling with cyclonic
force into this layered, powerful study of a small town in
decline.
Benjamin Percy, bestselling author of Thrill Me, The Dead Lands,
Red Moon, and The Wilding Deborah Kennedy's vision is as clear as
her embrace is wide. With Tornado Weather, she has given us a novel
that startles and surprises from the first page to the last,
turning our heads again and again. Yet the thunderclaps the book
produces are not those of a thriller, despite the missing child at
its center, but of how many human beings it seems to know, and how
variously it inhabits them. In the abundance with which it is
populated, and the diversity with which it is colored, it offers
something considerably more than the fragments of a few stray
characters. It offers the mosaic of an entire community.
Kevin Brockmeier, bestselling author of The Brief History of the
Dead"A wonderful novel. Deborah E. Kennedy's Tornado Weather has a
very distinctive energy, and there is real pathos along with subtle
humor. The characters are from a social class that is too often
overlooked and misrepresented. Kennedy gives them their due, with
all their resourcefulness, resilience, and suffering intact."
Charles Baxter, bestselling author of The Feast of Love"Kennedy s
engrossing portrait of rural Indiana is as compassionate as it is
knowing. In language that is searing, knowing, and often brutally
funny, Deborah Kennedy brings an entire rural town to life. Without
condescension or caricature, she draws out the intertwining threads
in the lives of a town populated in equal measure by the feckless
and the blameless and examines the fabric of small town America its
poverties and prejudices, the preoccupations and hopes of a group
of people striving to live their livesin a place that prosperity
has left behind. Tornado Weather holds to the light the curses that
nature sends, the curses we bring on ourselves, the curses we
outlive and the curses we break the ways of the human heart both
bright and dark. Truthful and timely, Kennedy s vision will spin
you up into its still, silent, eye, wreck every bone in your body
and touch you back down into a landscape that has been utterly
transformed. Simply breathtaking. Chase this one like the tornado
that it is."
Amy Parker, author of Beasts and Children Generates a rain wall of
wonder .Watch out for this one!
Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and Winesburg,
Indiana"
-Tornado Weather is dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful,
and Deborah E. Kennedy writeswith the gritty poetry of Daniel
Woodrell and misfit sensibility of FlanneryO'Connor. So many
characters swirl together--their stories compiling with cyclonic
force--into this layered, powerful study of a small town in
decline.-
--Benjamin Percy, bestselling author of Thrill Me, The Dead Lands,
Red Moon, and The Wilding-Deborah Kennedy's vision is as clear as
her embrace is wide. With Tornado Weather, she has given us a novel
that startles and surprises from the first page to the last,
turning our heads again and again. Yet the thunderclaps the book
produces are not those of a thriller, despite the missing child at
its center, but of how many human beings it seems to know, and how
variously it inhabits them. In the abundance with which it is
populated, and the diversity with which it is colored, it offers
something considerably more than the fragments of a few stray
characters. It offers the mosaic of an entire community.-
--Kevin Brockmeier, bestselling author of The Brief History of the
Dead-A wonderful novel. Deborah E. Kennedy's Tornado Weather has a
very distinctive energy, and there is real pathos along with subtle
humor. The characters are from a social class that is too often
overlooked and misrepresented. Kennedy gives them their due, with
all their resourcefulness, resilience, and suffering intact.-
--Charles Baxter, bestselling author of The Feast of Love-Kennedy's
engrossing portrait of rural Indiana is as compassionate as it is
knowing. In language that is searing, knowing, and often brutally
funny, Deborah Kennedy brings an entire rural town to life. Without
condescension or caricature, she draws out the intertwining threads
in the lives of a town populated in equal measure by the feckless
and the blameless--and examines the fabric of small town
America--its poverties and prejudices, the preoccupations and hopes
of a group of people striving to live their livesin a place that
prosperity has left behind. Tornado Weather holds to the light the
curses that nature sends, the curses we bring on ourselves, the
curses we outlive and the curses we break--the ways of the human
heart both bright and dark. Truthful and timely, Kennedy's vision
will spin you up into its still, silent, eye, wreck every bone in
your body and touch you back down into a landscape that has been
utterly transformed. Simply breathtaking. Chase this one like the
tornado that it is.-
--Amy Parker, author of Beasts and Children-Generates a rain wall
of wonder....Watch out for this one!-
--Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and Winesburg,
Indiana
"Tornado Weather is dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful,
and Deborah E. Kennedy writeswith the gritty poetry of Daniel
Woodrell and misfit sensibility of FlanneryO'Connor. So many
characters swirl together--their stories compiling with cyclonic
force--into this layered, powerful study of a small town in
decline."
--Benjamin Percy, bestselling author of Thrill Me, The Dead Lands,
Red Moon, and The Wilding"Deborah Kennedy's vision is as clear as
her embrace is wide. With Tornado Weather, she has given us a novel
that startles and surprises from the first page to the last,
turning our heads again and again. Yet the thunderclaps the book
produces are not those of a thriller, despite the missing child at
its center, but of how many human beings it seems to know, and how
variously it inhabits them. In the abundance with which it is
populated, and the diversity with which it is colored, it offers
something considerably more than the fragments of a few stray
characters. It offers the mosaic of an entire community."
--Kevin Brockmeier, bestselling author of The Brief History of the
Dead"A wonderful novel. Deborah E. Kennedy's Tornado Weather has a
very distinctive energy, and there is real pathos along with subtle
humor. The characters are from a social class that is too often
overlooked and misrepresented. Kennedy gives them their due, with
all their resourcefulness, resilience, and suffering intact."
--Charles Baxter, bestselling author of The Feast of Love"Kennedy's
engrossing portrait of rural Indiana is as compassionate as it is
knowing. In language that is searing, knowing, and often brutally
funny, Deborah Kennedy brings an entire rural town to life. Without
condescension or caricature, she draws out the intertwining threads
in the lives of a town populated in equal measure by the feckless
and the blameless--and examines the fabric of small town
America--its poverties and prejudices, the preoccupations and hopes
of a group of people striving to live their livesin a place that
prosperity has left behind. Tornado Weather holds to the light the
curses that nature sends, the curses we bring on ourselves, the
curses we outlive and the curses we break--the ways of the human
heart both bright and dark. Truthful and timely, Kennedy's vision
will spin you up into its still, silent, eye, wreck every bone in
your body and touch you back down into a landscape that has been
utterly transformed. Simply breathtaking. Chase this one like the
tornado that it is."
--Amy Parker, author of Beasts and Children"Generates a rain wall
of wonder....Watch out for this one!"
--Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and Winesburg, Indiana
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