Author of Pillars of Salt, J.A. Adams has been immersed in various cultures while living on the east, west, and gulf coasts. After completing a Ph.D. and a sixteen-year teaching career in English composition and literature at Louisiana State University, Adams is happily retired in Colorado to a full-time writing avocation.
Her second novel, Bomb Cyclone, is a historical novel about Ukraine from the dissolution of the Soviet Union to the present. It is also, and mainly, a love story about Mykola, a Ukrainian émigré in the U.S., and Oksana, the spy sent to get the coordinates from him for a lost bomb that he found near the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea.
My inspiration for writing this historical novel began with timely events occurring in Ukraine in 2014, when Russia simply ‘annexed’ Crimea, a part of Ukraine, after a sham election. The story continues to 2019, with an Afterword bringing it up to the present, as my writing of the book often coincided with actual events.
