Third Wind

With Third Wind novelist Roger Gloss has fashioned a deeply thoughtful story that captivates us on several levels. It confronts important contemporary themes head-on: looming climate change and a federal government, co-opted by corporations and big money, that has demonstrated a clear lack of interest in serving its citizens. But more than a mere polemic, Third Wind is also a richly plotted tale, dense with memorable characters and events. Ten years in the future, a handful of survivors from all over America partner with a village of poor Native Americans in the high desert of central New Mexico to deal with climate change on their own terms by building a self-sustaining community and bringing wind power to the region. Besides facing overarching pressures of catastrophic climate events and failing government, they must deal with the normal challenges of human diversity: labor, community, love, loss, survival - and pure evil. Third Wind pulls us through numerous twists and turns to its conclusion which, far better than many endings these days, satisfies rather than disappoints.