Something else intangible will come untethered in his life. The hurricane will leave a trail of destruction behind, and though Oscar and his family will make it out alive, some things will not survive intact, like his parents’ marriage. To be filled with both a child’s confusion and adult terror-and to still have room for some other wordless, ancient fear to thread itself through you and disrupt the sleep that comes at night, even years later. It is possible to be young and old at once. I’m going to be hurled into the air by this hurricane and disappear.Ĭoat and shirt by Tom Ford jeans, boots, and tie, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. I’m going to die, thirteen-year-old Oscar Isaac thinks as he hunches beneath flimsy sofa cushions with his brother and sister, with his parents and their already fraying relationship. Time has stopped, yet everything else is still in motion. It’s impossible to know where inside ends and outside begins. Manicured lawns in the housing development explode. A tree spins through violent gusts, snapped cleanly from its roots. It is coming for them, this force of wind and rain and some other power that feels unstoppable and ungodly, spiteful even. Outside, Hurricane Andrew: the sound like a freight train, loud and ominous, relentless and otherworldly. The floors are lifting, the carpet is flooding, and as one wall then another splinters, this family’s dreams start to collapse. A frightened young family huddles in the living room, hiding beneath a torn roof, praying to survive. It is 1992 and a house built on hope is cracking under pressure.
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