Against the Wind

Against the Wind is an elegantly written story of relationships involving six principal characters, strands of whose lives braid together after a chance reunion among three of them. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French-Canadian political science professor finds himself left with a choice between his cherished separatist cause and his marriage and family. An accomplished engineer is chronically unable to impress his more accomplished father sufficiently to be named head of the international wind technology company his father founded. The Quebec separatist party's Minister of Natural Resources, a divorc e, finds herself caught between her French-Canadian lover and an unexpected English-Canadian suitor.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 09/24/2019
ISBN: 9781597098359
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019
Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 91