Like a Hurricane

Beautiful, heart-warming, heart-rending, exquisitely realized in verse with minimal text, each word powerful and poignant. The added dimension of the use of concrete poetry heightens the impact of the text leaving us breathless. Our unnamed main character holds the secret of his sexual orientation deep in his heart, which unleashes a hurricane in his body. Breathing, the life force that can manifest itself in health, in fright, in anger, in love, is the metaphor that binds the story together. Although our hero’s secret is his gender identity, we all have a secret that, from time to time, overwhelms us, making this a story relevant to all humanity. In this short offering, we are taken from despair to hope to acceptance illuminated through complex characters.

The cover is engaging and the direct, sensitive text will make Like a Hurricane a hit with students from upper elementary to high school.

Thank you to Jonathan Bécotte for this exquisite gem and congratulations to Jonathan Kaplansky for the elegant English translation. Like a Hurricane is a text one will want to read and reread and reread.