Driven with beautiful balance by stories and characters, Janet McAdams's
Red Weather breathes new life into the radical legacy of the Native 1970s. In prose that recalls Joan Didion's Salvador, McAdams offers reasons to hope for rain, dawn, and even justice— but she reminds us, as well, that hope has a price.
—Robert Warrior
Janet McAdams is a writer with a powerful and original voice, as readers of her poetry know well.
Red Weather is an outstanding novel, from first graceful page to last. It's a captivating debut that will surely introduce this important writer to new readers, even as it rewards her dedicated fans.
—Katharine Weber, author of The Memory of All That, True Confections, and Triangle