Still Life With Tornado Summary
A.S. King

Still Life With Tornado Overview

A.S. King's young adult novel, Still Life withTornado, follows the surreal narrative of Sarah, a sixteen-year-old art student, as she comes to terms with her family's secrets and the causes for the existential crisis she believes she is having. The novel uses the surreal element of other Sarahs--her ten, twenty-three, and forty-year-old selves--appearing as guides while she faces the truth she has been avoiding for six years or more. The novel exposes the often secretive nature of abuse and the repercussions it has on the entire family of the abused.