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Highlights
- "A deeply humane story that lingers long after the last page is turned.
- Author(s): Rachel Stolzman Gullo
- 256 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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About the Book
Jonathan, a skyscraper engineer, believes problems have clear solutions until his son's illness disrupts his life, leading to unexpected connections and discoveries.
Book Synopsis
"A deeply humane story that lingers long after the last page is turned." Gayle Forman, New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay
As a skyscraper engineer, Jonathan Brooks, has always believed that a skyscraper is either made correctly or incorrectly, and all problems have solutions. He has yet to learn that people are made differently.
When his son Theo fell ill with encephalitis at fourteen months old, he and his wife Carly were devastated to learn that Theo's setbacks would be long-lasting, possibly permanent. Theo is now seven years old and not yet walking or fully verbal, and Jonathan and Carly are living apart. The broken family's world is upturned by the arrival of Aimee, a complicated young Irish woman who begins working as Theo's nanny in ways Jonathan does not trust. But as Aimee brings about new advancements for Theo their bond grows, until Aimee's own personal crisis rocks the family and shows them all a new way forward.
Confuse the Wind is a book about our human interdependence and how we desperately need one another to survive and hopefully thrive.
Review Quotes
"Every parent encounters some chasm between the ideal child they imagined and the actual child they are raising. With aching honesty and profound generosity, Rachel Stolzman Gullo delivers a beautifully written novel about one family traversing that divide and learning to love one other, not as they might be but as they are. The result is a deeply humane novel that lingers long after the last page is turned." Gayle Forman, New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay
"Confuse the Wind is a heart-wrenching, deftly told, story, that reminds us that sometimes you have to break a thing before you fully understand how it works. Rachel Stolzman Gullo hands us the broken pieces of a family, and the glue to put it back it back together again, shard by jagged shard. Bring your hankies. You're going to need them." Colin Broderick, author of Church End
"Confuse the Wind is poignant, brave, and utterly gorgeous. Stolzman Gullo has crafted a wonderful, strange, and astounding masterpiece. Just when I thought I knew where this compelling novel would go, I was proven wrong. Read this book. Then read it again. You won't be able to put it down." Amanda Boyden, author of I Got the Dog
"I read in great gulps, wanting to see just how Jonathan and Carly and Theo and Aimee would withstand the gusty headwinds brought by Theo's devastating childhood encephalitis and its aftermath. Stolzman Gullo has written a love song to love itself, as sturdy and astounding a thing, it turns out, as a well-designed skyscraper, built to confuse the wind." Amy Hassinger, author of After the Dam