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Dutton Adult
June 2010
On Sale: May 27, 2010
Featuring: Karena Jorge
304 pages
ISBN: 0525951555
EAN: 9780525951551
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction
Twins are forced to confront a violent secret from
their past in Jenna Blum's first novel since her runaway
bestseller, Those Who Save Us
How
far would you go to protect a sibling-and at what cost to
yourself?
In Those Who Save Us, Jenna
Blum proved herself a master storyteller with brilliant
insight into the spectrum of human emotion. Now, Blum turns
her sights to the most intimate and mysterious of family
relationships-that between twins-in her powerful and
provocative second novel.
As a teenager, Karena
Jorge had always been the one to look out for her twin
brother Charles, who suffers from bipolar disorder. 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 starts chasing
storms, and his behavior grows increasingly erratic . . .
until a terrifying storm chase with Karena ends with deadly
consequences, tearing the twins apart and changing both of
their lives forever.
Two decades later, Karena gets
a call from a psychiatric ward in Wichita, Kansas, to come
pick up her brother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for
twenty years. She soon discovers that Charles has lied to
the doctors, taken medication that could make him
dangerously manic, and disappeared again. Having exhausted
every resource to try and track him down, Karena realizes
she has only one last chance of finding him: the storms.
Wherever the tornadoes are, that's where he'll be. Karena
joins a team of professional stormchasers-passionate
adventurers who will transform her life and give her a
chance at love and redemption- and embarks on an odyssey to
find her brother before he reveals the violent secret from
their past and does more damage to himself . . . or to
someone else.
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