What do you think?
Rate this book
After the Storm
Then...
May's life had been just fine.
Not happy and miles from meaningful, but fine. She lived on an out-of-the-way island fittingly named Folly. She existed as far from other people as she could manage. The distance let her to drift from memories of her careless parents, graying recollections of the life taken from her, and a sea of her own bad decisions.
Hustling here and there as a small-time weed dealer on the crystal coast allowed May to live like a hermit in the off season. Save one cold night in November, just before a killing storm made landfall.
Now...
The island is left unlivable, and May, like so many others, has become a refugee. Drifting and wandering. Blindly trying to start life over. In this foggy chaos she treads to keep her head above water and to steady and buoy poor Tommy, a boy who might be too far gone to rescue.
Meanwhile...
Four hundred miles away, in a small dying town hidden high in the mountains, a disregarded teenager named Curtis and his unwilling sister Vicki run from the consequences of his violent proclivities. In a gassed-up Mustang, they head east, to the crystal coast, where they can hide and start over. Just like everyone else.
After the storm comes a different danger.
May's life had been just fine.
Not happy and miles from meaningful, but fine. She lived on an out-of-the-way island fittingly named Folly. She existed as far from other people as she could manage. The distance let her to drift from memories of her careless parents, graying recollections of the life taken from her, and a sea of her own bad decisions.
Hustling here and there as a small-time weed dealer on the crystal coast allowed May to live like a hermit in the off season. Save one cold night in November, just before a killing storm made landfall.
Now...
The island is left unlivable, and May, like so many others, has become a refugee. Drifting and wandering. Blindly trying to start life over. In this foggy chaos she treads to keep her head above water and to steady and buoy poor Tommy, a boy who might be too far gone to rescue.
Meanwhile...
Four hundred miles away, in a small dying town hidden high in the mountains, a disregarded teenager named Curtis and his unwilling sister Vicki run from the consequences of his violent proclivities. In a gassed-up Mustang, they head east, to the crystal coast, where they can hide and start over. Just like everyone else.
After the storm comes a different danger.
114 pages, Paperback
First published September 30, 2019
5 people want to read
About the author
Marietta Miles
13 books19 followersI am lucky...flash and shorts published with Flash Fiction Offensive, Thrill Kills and Chaos, Revolt Daily, Yellow Mama and more. I have stories in several Static Movement and Thirteen O'Clock anthologies. My first two novellas are now available through All Due Respect Books. The guys at ADR are the best. I live in Virginia with my husband and two kids.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
September 27, 2019
Although she's published as a crime author, Marietta Miles once again fools everyone and defies all genre expectations, focusing on subtle, but all-too human emotional conflict, showing the struggle to rebuild not only after physical and natural disasters, but personal, intimate ones as well. And in After The Storm, she shows that sometimes those efforts fail.
After The Storm is a follow-up to her previous May, and we follow May and Tommy sticking together after the devastating nor’easter levels their lives and how their story intersects with two siblings fleeing a traumatic past. The book fits right into Miles’s growing body of work, concentrating on similar themes not just from May but also from her novella Route 12.
On sale Sept 30.
After The Storm is a follow-up to her previous May, and we follow May and Tommy sticking together after the devastating nor’easter levels their lives and how their story intersects with two siblings fleeing a traumatic past. The book fits right into Miles’s growing body of work, concentrating on similar themes not just from May but also from her novella Route 12.
On sale Sept 30.
December 9, 2019
Marietta Miles is one of my favorite writers. She knows how to convey all the complexity and messiness of what makes us human with assuredness, sharp insight, and compassion. This follow-up to her atmospheric novella, May, delivers everything I'd expect from Miles and more. Top notch writing.
November 21, 2019
As with Marietta Miles's first book to star May Cosby, the aptly titled May, After the Storm deals with not only being unable to pick your parents and how such things might affect us, but the aftermath of the nor'easter which devastated Folly at the end of May. This sequel brings holdovers Tommy and May with it, but it also introduces new characters, siblings with a darkness and parent problem of their own. We find some closure in After the Storm, yes, but other circumstances arise which serve to occupy what becomes May Cosby's life. It leads me to believe we have not seen the last of May. As will you, I impatiently await her return.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews