One Hundred Days of Rain
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Carellin Brooks
In prose by turn haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks' One Hundred Days of Rain enumerates an unnamed narrator's encounters with that most quotidian of subjects: rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator must rebuild a life from the bottom up. As she wakes each day to encounter Vancouver's sky and city streets, the narrator notices that the rain, so apparently unchanging, is in fact kaleidoscopic. Her melancholic mood alike undergoes subtle variations that sometimes echo, sometimes contrast with her surroundings. Caught between the two poles of weather and mood, the narrator is not alone: whether riding the bus with her small child, searching for an apartment to rent, or merely calculating out the cost of meagre lunches, the world forever intrudes, as both a comfort and a torment. (From BookThug)
One Hundred Days of Rain won the Publishing Triangle's 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction in 2016.
From the book
It rained all the week before the day they got married. She was crossing her fingers. Praying even. For the wrong thing as it turned out. The sun finally came out that afternoon, just before time. She counted herself lucky. Thought it was a sign. They had their first argument on the way to the reception.
From One Hundred Days of Rain by Carellin Brooks ©2015. Published by BookThug.