Until she has an opportunity to get away, she’ll deal with being in a situation that only makes everything she lost feel like an even greater punishment. They’re not nice people, but because she’s not yet an adult, she has no choice but to live with them. Jersey’s sent to live with relatives she doesn’t know after the storm hits. She lost her little sister, as well as her mother. It’s more than losing her home or her school. When Jersey’s home town is devastated by a tornado, she wasn’t prepared for just how much of her life would change. This book checks every single one of my buttons: it’s about tornadoes and storm chasing. But there is much more to be had on the adventure, and deeply-held family secrets come spilling open. So of course, Karena joins a team of storm chasers in hopes of tracking down Charles. Even though they haven’t spoken to one another in decades, she knows she’ll be able to find Charles if she just follows the storms. When she gets to Wichita, though, her brother’s gone missing. He became tougher and tougher to watch over as they grew older, though, especially as Charles became less likely to take his medication and became more invested in chasing tornadoes.īut it was one bad storm that tore the twins apart.įast forward in time, and Karena receives a phone call that her brother’s in a hospital in Wichita and she’s being asked to pick him up.
Karena and Charles are twins when they were younger, it was always Karena keeping an eye out for her brother, since he suffered from bipolar disorder. And it doesn’t hurt that Twister is, without question, one of the best films in existence (we’ll pretend Into the Storm is supremely inferior, despite fire tornadoes).
I think it was that book, as well as the ever-present fear that that sort of situation could be part of my life - and has been, as I have been through more than one tornado in my time - that’s always made tornado stories so appealing to me. The detail that sticks out the most was seeking shelter in the bathroom and how the drain made a very specific sound when the tornados hit. Namely, tornadoes.Īside from frequent tornado drills throughout school years, as well as countless hours in basements and windowless hallways, one of the most memorable tornado-related experiences I had in elementary school was having Night of the Twistersread aloud to my third grade class. Part of my experiencing growing and living here among the silos, corn fields, and rolling hills has been learning to be prepared for storm weather.
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