“Storms” by Maria Fernandez Snitzer is preparing to hit the big screen by releasing its Movie Treatment

Maria Fernandez Snitzer, the author of “Storms”, grew up in the same small fishing town that serves as the setting of the book. She had always been influenced by her historian father. She used to accompany her father on his research trips.
The US Review of Books acknowledged that “the author, a Louisiana native, writes elegantly of the literal and metaphorical storms that batter the generations in this literary family drama. The story opens as protagonist Elise Charleville Steiner dreams of the calm her maternal grandmother, Lala, always displayed, knowing that life had a way of returning to normal after any storm. As the author’s debut novel wends its circuitous path through both ordinary and emotionally fraught family scenes over the next week, a powerful hurricane sweeps across the Caribbean, with landfall predicted near Elise’s community of Bayou Chouteau. It is a study of action and reaction.”
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Residents of New Orleans and its environs, including the fictional town of Bayou Chouteau, are no strangers to the threat of hurricanes and the seemingly annual evacuations ordered in the face of their approaches. We see this in the memories of Storms’ main character, Elise Charleville Steiner, beginning with the most poignant memories of her grandmother. A powerful hurricane seems to be heading Elise’s way here in the present, so she begins preparing to leave if necessary.
As Elise and her family prepare to evacuate, she reflects upon more generational mysteries. Particularly haunting is Elise’s cousin Jacqui’s unrequited love affair, whose ending makes no sense until flashbacks spiral like storm systems through the present-day elements of the tale, reflecting the story themes of stormy disruption and coping with adjustments. This is a complex story, and the challenge of following Elise’s mother and aunt as they navigate the emotional storms of their past and present is made more impressive through the vivid characterizations, engaging situations, and capable prose. This title brings to mind some charming yet tragedy-laden stories featuring Southern women by author Fannie Flagg and playwright Robert Harling.
Elise is concerned about her cousin Jacqui, who hasn’t been the same since her last relationship’s sudden and unexplained termination. The cousins’ respective mothers soon become increasingly influential players in the story, women whose own personal pasts bear a direct connection to the emotional events of the present.
The monstrous hurricane undergoes a sudden transformation and makes landfall as a tropical storm in Mississippi. But Elise is battered upon discovering her Aunt Kitty’s role in perpetuating an untruth about her cousin Jacqui’s true paternity. Hers was a practical decision turned heartless and cruel through the vagaries of feminine survival in male-dominated, midtwentieth-century Louisiana. Ultimately, life’s storms don’t entirely disappear, as the author articulately and definitively demonstrates, but like the unpredictable hurricane and family issues, they are transmuted and recycled instead.