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The Updraft

The Updraft


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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.
About the Author: Brett Peto is a student journalist at Elmhurst College's award-winning newspaper The Leader, studying to be a genetics counselor. He is the author of The Updraft and The Digger: A Collection of Poems, both able to be purchased on Kindle. He lives outside Chicago, Illinois.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781490985503
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 181 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1490985506
  • Publisher Date: 19 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 140 mm

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