Jenna Blum is the author of the New York Times best-sellers “Those Who Save Us” and “The Stormchasers.” She attended Kenyon College and Boston University, where she taught writing for five years and was the fiction editor for AGNI literary magazine. She also worked for Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation for four years interviewing Holocaust survivors. Currently, Jenna runs master novel workshops for Grub Street Writers in Boston, where she lives. |
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 About “Those Who Save Us”:
For 50 years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Anna's daughter Trudy was only four when she and Anna were liberated from Nazi Weimar by an American soldier and went with him to Minnesota, so Trudy can't remember much ... but she has one piece of evidence from the past: a family portrait showing Trudy, Anna, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.
Combining a story of passionate but doomed love, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother-daughter drama, New York Times bestseller Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.
 About “The Stormchasers”:
As teenagers, Karena Jorge had always been the one to look out for her brother Charles, who suffers from bipolar disorder. But as Charles begins to refuse medication and his manic tendencies worsen, Karena finds herself caught between her loyalty to her brother and her fear for his life. Always obsessed with severe weather, whose wild and magic energy seems to mirror his own impulses, Charles begins chasing storms, and his behavior grows increasingly erratic … until a terrifying chase with Karena ends with deadly consequences, tearing the twins apart and changing their lives forever.
Two decades later, Karena, now a reporter for the Minneapolis Ledger, gets a call from a mental health ward in Wichita, Kansas, to come pick up her brother, whom she hasn’t seen or spoken to for 20 years. She soon discovers that Charles has lied to the doctors, taken medication that could make him dangerously manic, and disappeared again. Having exhausted all her reporter’s resources to track him down, Karena realizes she has only one last chance of finding Charles: the storms. Wherever the tornadoes are, that’s where he’ll be. Karena joins a team of professional storm chasers — passionate adventurers who will transform her life and offer her a chance to love and redemption — and embarks on an odyssey to find her brother before he does more damage to himself—or to somebody else.
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