RIGHT AFTER THE WEATHER

The moving and dramatic new novel by the award winning author of "Carry The One".

What happens when the untested come up against their test? Cate, Maureen and Johnny are ordinarily good people, inhabitants of an urban version of the American middle class. They are also playing out a prolonged adolescence that has become available in the early 21st century, and further, in the milieu of costume and fantasy that is the theater. Their troubles are first-world problems, luxurious dilemmas they can ponder in their spare time. Conspiracy theories. Dating peculiarities. Annoying housekeepers.
All of that changes in Avery's kitchen. When Cate comes upon her friend being brutalized on the floor, she winds up, in an ungainly and chaotic way, scaring off Irene and killing Nathan. She didn't know she had it in her.

Carol is the author of the novels CARRY THE ONE, LUCKY IN THE CORNER, SEVEN MOVES, and AQUAMARINE. She has won the Carl Sandburg, Society of Midland Authors, and Ferro-Grumley awards for fiction. Her short fiction has been anthologized, and published in various periodicals including VLS, New Ohio Review, and Tin House. Her stories, "Hammam," "Elvis Has Left the Building," and "The Last Speaker of the Language" were chosen for inclusion in Best American Short Stories of 1994, 1998, and 2012 respectively. Anshaw is a past fellow of the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA in Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.