{"id":406,"date":"2011-04-21T17:55:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=406"},"modified":"2011-04-21T17:55:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:55:52","slug":"jenna-blums-the-stormchasers-available-on-paperback-april-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2011\/04\/21\/jenna-blums-the-stormchasers-available-on-paperback-april-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Blum&#8217;s The Stormchasers available on paperback April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stormchasers-Novel-Jenna-Blum\/dp\/0452297133\/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1301492252&amp;sr=8-1\">The Stormchaser<\/a>s<\/em> (Dutton, 2010), by 1998 BU fiction graduate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennablum.com\/index.htm\">Jenna Blum<\/a>, will be available on paperback on April 26 <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennablum.com\/media-downloads\/JennaStorm2.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.jennablum.com\/media-downloads\/JennaStorm2.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" \/>wherever books are sold. The story is about twins who have been separated by tragedy, who are reunited through storms. An excerpt and synopsis are available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennablum.com\/blum-stormchasers-synopsis.htm\">http:\/\/www.jennablum.com\/blum-stormchasers-synopsis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/\">Kirkus Reviews<\/a> describes the book as &#8220;a somber, effective portrait of twins\u2014of the strength they gain and the  harm they do to one another\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Charles&#8217;\u00a0storminess (he imagines his  illness like a storm, a natural, neutral phenomenon) is beautifully  rendered\u2014Blum offers a meticulous portrait of bipolar disorder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jenna is also the author of the <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Those-Who-Save-Jenna-Blum\/dp\/0156031663\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1303419175&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>Those Who Save Us<\/em><\/a> (Harcourt, 2004)<em><\/em>.\u00a0 She was named one of Oprah&#8217;s Top Thirty Women Writers (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/oprahsbookclub\/Favorite-Women-Writers\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah&#8217;s Top Thirty<\/a><\/em>).  \u00a0Jenna taught  writing at BU for five years and was the fiction editor for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/agni\/\"> AGNI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stormchasers (Dutton, 2010), by 1998 BU fiction graduate Jenna Blum, will be available on paperback on April 26 wherever books are sold. The story is about twins who have been separated by tragedy, who are reunited through storms. An excerpt and synopsis are available here: http:\/\/www.jennablum.com\/blum-stormchasers-synopsis.htm Kirkus Reviews describes the book as &#8220;a somber, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}