Right After the Weather (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)

Right After the Weather (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) by Anshaw, Carol. library edition. ISBN: 9781432872748.

"Its the fall of 2016. Cate, a set designer in her early forties, lives and works in Chicagos theater community. She has stayed too long at the fair and knows its time to get past her prolonged adolescence and stop taking handouts from her parents. She has a firm plan to get solvent and settled in a serious relationship. She has tentatively started something new even as shes haunted by an old, going-nowhere affair. Her ex-husband, recently booted from his most recent marriage, is currently camped outin Cates spare bedroom, in thrall to online conspiracy theories, and shes not sure how to help him. Her best friend Neale, a yoga instructor, lives nearby with her son and is Cates model for what serious adulthood looks like. Only a few blocks away, but in a parallel universe we find Nathan and Irene--casual sociopaths, drug addicts, and small-time criminals. Their world and Cates intersect the day she comes into Neales kitchen to find these strangers assaulting her friend. Forced to take fast, spontaneous action, Cate does something shes never even considered. She now also knows the violence she is capable of, as does everyone else in her life, and overnight, their world has changed. Anshaws flawed, sympathetic, and uncannily familiar characters grapple with their altered relationships and identities against the backdrop of the new Trump presidency and a country waking to a different understanding of itself. Eloquent, moving, and beautifully observed, Right after the Weather is the work of a master of exquisite prose and a wry and compassionate student of the human condition writing at the height of her considerable powers"--