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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Updraft

The Updraft

Peto, Brett

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1490985506
ISBN13: 9781490985503
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 19 2012
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What would you do if a tornado struck? Sixteen-year-old Benjamin Destin's small farm town was already failing. Twelve years ago, its Plymouth plant shut its doors, and since then, his community has skidded ever closer to financial and social ruin. Then, on a normal summer day, Ben and his father, Stanley, are in the next town over loading fertilizer into their trucks when a storm blows in and unleashes a tornado-an updraft-onto the plains. Quickly separated from his father, Ben must try to rescue his neighbors, save his already suffering town, and somehow achieve redemption out of the destruction of the updraft. Hailed for the intellectual wording, the excellent description of the aftermath of this most violent storm, and the emotion-inducing situations that evoke reflection on community, family, friends, and faith (Live to Read), Peto offers a compelling case that small-town America is not dead yet. This is a 22,000-word novella. Two additional, never-before-published short stories from Brett Peto, Barefoot Black and Pebble Creek, come after the main story.

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