Storm Riders: A Novel

Winner of the Oregon Book Awards H.L. Davis Prize for Fiction. Storm Riders examines the conflicted love of a single father struggling to raise his adopted Native American son who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. When a small girl mysteriously drowns near a student-housing complex the boy is implicated and the father wrestles with his own doubt guilt and responsibility.. Bringing to life the austere beauty of the Tlingit Alaskan village of the boys family as well as the highly educated pockets of the East Coast Lesley vividly portrays a father and a son struggling to come to terms with each other and above all with the truth. This novel as The Chicago Tribune noted is a powerful tale with a strong emotional core.