A powerful hurricane is heading for Florida. These storms are becoming more frequent and more destructive with each passing year. Frida, very pregnant, wants to evacuate, but her husband Kirby, a lineman, tries to assure her everything will be fine.
In the calm before the storm, Frida’s two young stepsons go missing. Kirby sets out to find them. And as the storm rages, Frida goes into early labor all alone, giving birth to a baby girl she names Wanda, after the hurricane in which she arrives.
The book follows Wanda through her life, from her curious childhood through her adolescence, as she deals with more loss but learns more about the world around her and how to understand the changes occurring. It also tells of her adulthood, in a world vastly different than she could imagine, and the need for connection.
This is a bleak book in that it paints a picture of our country wrecked by climate change until the point it’s no longer recognizable. There’s a lot of loss in the book as well. But it’s such a beautifully told story of love and survival that I couldn’t get enough of.
No comments:
Post a Comment