In Brooks' trademark 'lush, breathtaking prose' ( San Francisco Chronicle on Painted Horses) and with a winking nod to the Sam Clemens who inspired its hero's nickname, Cloudmaker is a boisterous, heartfelt novel that brings to life the idealism, inventiveness, traditionalism, and deep contradictions of the American spirit. And meanwhile, there's the matter of the watch, which it turns out the dead man's cohort of bank robbers would very much like back. godliness that has split Annelise from her family, and, in a quieter way, divides Huck's family too. From the nationally bestselling author of Painted Horses, Malcolm Brooks returns with a soaring, spirited novel set during the summer of Amelia Earharts. As Huck's airplane takes shape, so does his burgeoning understanding of the world, including the battle over worldliness vs. As it turns out, she has had flying lessons-another sign.

That summer also marks the arrival of his cousin Annelise, sent to live with the family under mysterious circumstances. Huck is building his own airplane, a fact he has concealed from his mother. When he and a friend find a dead body in a local creek, a rare Lindbergh flight watch on its wrist, it seems like a sign.

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The summer of 1937 will be a turning point for fourteen-year-old Houston 'Huck' Finn. Acknowledged authors Brooks, Malcolm wrote Cloudmaker comprising 448 pages back in 2022. From the author of the national bestseller Painted Horses, a novel set during the Age of Aviation, in which a young tinkerer and an aspiring pilot building their own airplane unexpectedly come into possession of a rare Lindbergh flight watch owned by a bank robber whose fellow criminals want it back.įrom the nationally bestselling author of Painted Horses, Malcolm Brooks returns with a soaring, spirited novel set during the summer of Amelia Earhart's final flight-a tale of American ingenuity and optimism set against the backdrop of a deepening Great Depression.

Cloudmaker by Malcolm Brooks