Small Rain A Novel

Garth Greenwell

eBook - 2024

Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Financial Times, New Statesman, Vox, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and BookPageA New Yorker Recommended Read of the YearA New York Public Library and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the YearA 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... more