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This is a story about a coming, slowly creeping, once in a millennium climatological disaster event. Yet the residents of a small Pacific Northwest town, especially their Mayor, seem more concerned with the taking up of a homeless man and his cohort in downtown, a development threatening to ruin their idyllic self-perceptions. Even as the storm readies to deliver a direct hit, many view the homeless men as the true "plague" rather than a dust storm, acid spitting, Tornado funnel-front that has reduced Syracuse and Chicago to utter ruin.
Ultimately, it is a story about what it means to love one's neighbor, what it means to sacrifice, what it means to trust in God's providential, often unseen, plans.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Gracjan Kraszewski is the author of five books: the novel "Thermonuclear Mirth," the novella "Seraphim and the Dust Plague," and the book of essays "The Hippo Lectures"-all from Arouca Press-along with the novel "The Holdout" and the Civil War history "Catholic Confederates." Holder of a PhD in history (from Mississippi State University) he has taught, and teaches, at universities in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. He played baseball in college, professionally in Europe in the Czech Republic and Belgium, and for the Polish National Team.
