The Girl With Rain In Her Pockets

THE GIRL WITH RAIN IN HER POCKETSThey said she carried rain in her pockets.When Daniel’s cousin, Mara, arrives at his parents’ house with a dripping suitcase and a silence too old for a girl, no one knows what to make of her. Water follows her everywhere: across kitchen floors, under school desks, through church aisles, into every room that tries to explain her away.Soon the town begins telling its own stories. Mara is a curse. A blessing. A sign. An angel. A burden. Anything but a girl.Daniel knows better, or wants to. He watches as his cousin turns fear small with a joke, meets cruelty with stillness, and refuses every name the town tries to give her. But as the rain deepens and the river creeps closer, even love may not be enough to keep Mara from becoming the story everyone needs her to be.The Girl With Rain in Her Pockets is a haunting novel of family, folklore, memory, and the mystery of a girl no one could explain. Read more