Garth Greenwell

Small Rain

Cassandra Tang

They were wonderful, really, commonness didn't cancel wonder, or I didn't see why it should, not all the time.

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 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, Vox, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and BookPage 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.

A Novel

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A great book for anyone curious about the Free Luigi movement or in need of a reminder to love being alive 

Margo Koss

garth i love you but this is just too triggering right now….

Small Rain

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