With spare prose and subtle poignancy, Thunderclouds in the Forecast probes love, loyalty, and belonging. A preeminent American writer who thrives on reinvention, Major returns with an unforgettable exploration of life on the brink of sweeping change. Now Ray has more than one reason to return. By the time Ray arrives in San Francisco, Scotty has abandoned his bartending job, his rented room, and his scant belongings and skipped town with a married woman from Lorena. Together they embark on a romance that tempts him to stay. When Ray’s train is delayed in Lorena, a Gold Rush outpost turned college town, he meets Alice. Maybe Ray, who’s just won the lottery, is finally in a position to help him. While Ray has embraced the stable tedium of steady employment, Scotty’s life has been erratic, a trail of short-lived affairs and dead-end jobs. It’s April 1976 and Ray is taking Amtrak to San Francisco to reconnect with Scotty, his oldest friend, whom he met in a shelter for abandoned children. Thunderclouds in the Forecast traverses the linked histories of two friends-one Black, the other white-who grew up wards of the state in New York.
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