Shelter From The Storm tells a story about the effect of gun violence on three generations of a Midwestern family. Sam McCandliss is a former FBI agent who has retreated to a lake cabin in northern Minnesota after being traumatized by the death of his wife, Caroline. When the story opens, Sam has been at the lake for seven years, completely out of touch with his family. One day, he is out on the lake in his boat fishing, accompanied, as always, by his dog Buddy. As he approaches his dock, he sees a young boy standing there. It is his thirteen-year-old grandson Danny, whom he doesn’t recognize after not seeing him for seven years. Danny has driven his mother’s car to Gull Lake from his home in Des Moines without telling his parents. Sam discovers that Danny has been traumatized by a shooting at his school where five students and one teacher were killed and has come seeking shelter with his grandfather, the former Marine and FBI agent, whom he thinks can protect him from further gun violence. With his parents’ permission, Danny spends a summer of healing in the north woods with Sam and Buddy. Gull Lake is a peaceful refuge for the three of them, until gun violence finds them, again, even there.
Genre: General Fiction
Genre: General Fiction
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