Small Rain A Novel
Small Rain A Novel by Garth Greenwell, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on September 3, 2024, spans 320 pages and is presented in English. This novel explores the profound experiences of a poet whose life is dramatically altered by a medical crisis. As he confronts the challenges of the American healthcare system, he grapples with his own vulnerabilities and the complexities of love, art, and beauty.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into themes of intimacy and human connection, set against the backdrop of a life-threatening situation. The story unfolds as the protagonist navigates his physical and emotional struggles, revealing insights into the nature of sympathy and the value of art. Small Rain offers a reflective examination of existence, emphasizing the delicate interplay between pain and the human experience, making it a significant addition to contemporary literary fiction.
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Financial Times, New Statesman, and more
A New Yorker Recommended Read of the Year
A New York Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.
A poet’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.
This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.
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