After The Storm is the eagerly awaited sequel to Judith Richards' Summer Lightning, an international best-seller.
Redheaded, freckle-faced Terry Calder has returned to the swamps of the Everglades where he lives in a migratory workers camp with his mother and younger sister.
His idealistic father is in the thick of World War II, "investigating atrocities in Poland." Ten year old Terry has become "the man of the family."
In an engrossing narrative, Terry also becomes the legs for a wounded veteran named Deke, the conscience for an angry Indian boy named Ossie, and sometimes the mind for a gentle friend who accidentally brings tragedy to them all.