“Winona is a compelling character, full of life and humor, and Miranda Darling draws you into her life so thoroughly that Thunderhead becomes a powerful and gripping experience of the insidious and subtle effects of coercive control.” —Midwest Book Review
A brilliant work of feminist fiction, this sharp, powerful novel follows one woman’s struggle to free herself from the confines of contemporary domesticity.
When Winona Dalloway begins her day—in the peaceful early hours before her children, that “tiny tornado of little hands and feet”, wake up—she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed.
On the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother: unobtrusive, quietly going about her tasks. But within is a vivid, chaotic self, teeming with voices—a mind both wild and precise.
And meanwhile, a storm is brewing …
