Small Rain
by Garth Greenwell · 2024
Literary Fiction · ranked #249 in category
Winner · The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2025
A poet experiences a sudden, excruciating pain that leads to a hospitalisation for a rare cardiac emergency, and the days that follow — confined to an ICU during the pandemic — become an extended meditation on the body, illness, love and what matters when survival itself is uncertain. Greenwell's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel is an intensely interior account of crisis, told with extraordinary precision about pain, fear and tenderness.
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