Ginger Strand Libri

While Kurt writes press releases by day and labors over short stories by night, Bernard builds silver iodide generators and sends planes to bomb cloud banks with dry ice. These experiments, dubbed Project Cirrus, soon attract the attention of military men--maybe weather will even become "the new super-weapon." But as evidence mounts that Project Cirrus is causing alarming changes in the atmosphere, Bernard begins to have misgivings about the harmful uses of his inventions, and Kurt starts writing a new kind of story depicting scientists grappling with moral questions and with fantastic inventions gone awry. Set against a backdrop of atomic anxiety and the dawn of the digital age, The Brothers Vonnegut is a wild collision of science and literature.

Set against the backdrop of a post-9/11 America, the story explores the life of Will Gruen, a passionate pilot and farm owner facing upheaval as his family dynamics shift. With his airline career ending and his wife transforming their farm into a bed-and-breakfast, Will grapples with the changes in his daughters' lives, including one choosing an open marriage and another moving to New York. Over three pivotal days surrounding a wedding, family secrets emerge, relationships evolve, and the Gruens confront their intertwined pasts and uncertain futures.