The Waiting Sky by Lara Zielin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

If you and your mom were caught up in a twister and only one could survive, who would it be?

This question may be a game to most but to Jane McAllister this is a real life dilemma.

Compared to the turmoil in her personal life, chasing tornadoes doesn’t seem so crazy to Jane. Jane is spending the summer working with her brother’s storm-chasing team away from her manipulating alcoholic mother.
Guilt at leaving her mom alone in Minnesota follows Jane as she photographs the physical destruction caused by tornadoes.
Despite her friends’ and brother’s attempts, Jane fails to see the parallel between a storm’s chaos and her own chaotic life with her mother.
Zielin does an excellent job of describing the reversal of roles between a daughter and her parent, and her portrayal of the mother's ability to manipulate her daughter is spot-on.

Distance doesn’t stop her mother’s emotional manipulation, and Jane is faced with some major decisions.



View all my reviews