The Wind Will Catch You

By: Michelle Theall

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Sky Fielder is a typical college student, except that she is a product of the foster-care system, lives in a halfway house, and meets with her caseworker on a weekly basis. While failing to balance her grades and erratic social life, she receives a call from a hospital, asking her to make medical decisions for her brother Ben—who died more than a decade before.

The call must be a scam, and besides, Sky has a new life now. None of her classmates know about her desperate and feral childhood in West Texas, where her brother kept her mind off hunger with adventures along the riverbeds and cliffs surrounding their trailer—or about the rash decision that cost him his life and almost ended hers.

In fact, only one person truly knows Sky, and that's because it’s her job. But Sky’s assigned caseworker, Laura, is an employee of social services, which surely means she can’t be trusted. As Laura helps Sky unravel the mysteries surrounding the man in the hospital, Sky remembers the risks it takes to love and be loved. When the past and the present collide and long-kept secrets are revealed, she must decide how far she’s willing to go to have a home and family again.

The Wind Will Catch You is an eye-opening, gritty, and hopeful novel by GLAAD media award nominee Michelle Theall about upheaval and resilience, forgiveness and family, love and unexpected allies, all set in motion by issues of social justice and a broken American foster-care system.

©2023 Michelle Theall (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Truly exciting story with so much wisdom worked in

I’m only partway through, but this is wonderful! The action starts right away and even with so much of the book left to go I’m already on edge to find out what happens, listening in every moment I can, and going back when I miss a part. I’m nodding at the wisdom of the social worker, and the real pain of the relationship lessons the main character is learning, even physically tensing up when she makes questionable choices and it gets suspenseful. The reader is doing a great job putting emotion behind the words and slight changes of voice for each character, but not over-acting.