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A love story...
Shaye Areheart Books
June 2006
Featuring: Yuri Balodis; Hannah Graham
256 pages
ISBN: 0307336751
Hardcover
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction
The setting is Milwaukee, Wisconsin--if not America's heart,
then at least its liver--home to an array of breweries and
abandoned factories and down-on-their-luck Eastern European
immigrants. The year is 1989. Revolutions are sweeping through the nations of the Eastern
Bloc. Communism is unraveling. And nobody feels this
unraveling more piquantly than Yuri Balodis--a
fifteen-year-old first-generation American living with his
Latvian-immigrant parents in Milwaukee's Third Ward. It's a turbulent time. And when Yuri falls in love with
Hannah Graham--the daring daughter of a prominent local
socialist--chaos ensues. Within weeks, Yuri is ensnared by
both Hannah and socialism. He joins the staff of the
Socialist Worker. He starts quoting Lenin and Marx
indiscriminately. His parents, of course, are horrified and deeply saddened.
They try to educate him, to show him why, in their opinion,
communism has ruined so many lives. But Yuri is stubborn.
And his ideological betrayal will have more serious
consequences than breaking his parents' hearts. RED WEATHER is by turns funny and bittersweet, tinged with a
rueful comic sense that will instantly remind you of the
absurd complications of love. Pauls Toutonghi's stunning
debut novel is at once reminiscent of Michael Chabon's THE
MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH and Khaled Hosseini's THE KITE RUNNER.
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