Above the Thunder

Gorgeously written and imbued with wisdom and humor, Above the Thunder is a celebration of unexpected connections and the search for home with four characters converge in an unlikely but devoted family with the preternaturally smart and compelling Flynn at its center.

Ren?e Manfredi received her MFA from Indiana University, a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts, and was a regional winner of Granta's Best American Novelists Under 40. Her story collection, Where Love Leaves Us, won the Iowa Short Fiction award. Her short stories have been published in The Mississippi Review, The Iowa Review, The Georgia Review, and the Pushcart Prize anthology, and were featured in NPR's "Selected Shorts" series. Manfredi is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Alaska. Above the Thunder is her first novel.