I Will Send Rain, Rae Meadows
I Will Send Rain, Rae Meadows
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I Will Send Rain

Author: Rae Meadows

Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith

Unabridged: 8 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/09/2016

Synopsis

From award-winning author Rae Meadows comes a luminous, tenderly rendered novel of a woman fighting for her family’s survival in the early years of the Dust Bowl.Annie Bell can’t escape the dust. It’s in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children’s dry, cracked lips. It’s 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains.As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions. Annie’s fragile young son Fred suffers from dust pneumonia; her headstrong daughter Birdie, flush with first love, is choosing a dangerous path out of Mulehead; and Samuel, Annie’s husband, is plagued by disturbing dreams of rain. As Annie, desperate for an escape of her own, flirts with the affections of an unlikely admirer, she must choose who she is going to become.With her warm storytelling and beautiful prose, Rae Meadows brings to life an unforgettable family that faces hardship with rare grit and determination. Rich in detail and epic in scope, I Will Send Rain is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, filled with hope, morality, and love.

About Rae Meadows

Rae Meadows is the author of Calling Out, which received the 2006 Utah Book Award for fiction; No One Tells Everything, a Poets & Writers Notable Novel; and the widely praised novel Mercy Train. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Brooklyn, New York.

About Emily Sutton-Smith

Emily Sutton-Smith is a professional actress and one of the cofounders of an Equity theater in central Michigan. Her stage credits include Out of Orbit; Doublewide; Summer Retreat; Too Much, Too Much, Too Many; Miracle on South Division Street; End Days; The Usual: A Musical Love Story; The Smell of the Kill; The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds; Maidens, Mothers and Crones; and Additional Particulars. A New York City native, she has worked onstage at almost all the Equity theaters in Michigan, including the Williamston Theatre, the Purple Rose Theatre, Performance Network Theatre, Tipping Point Theatre, the Detroit Rep, the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and MeadowBrook Theatre. Emily is a proud member of the Actors' Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA. Her film and TV credits include The Funeral Guest, Gifted Hands, Butterfly Effect: Revelation, The Prince of Motor City, and Nevermore. Emily studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City, and holds a Grande Diploma in Pastry Arts from the French Culinary Institute. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Michigan State University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on July 19, 2016

5 stars! "There had been no rain for seventy-two days and counting. The mercury would climb past a hundred today and no doubt again tomorrow." I would not have been able to imagine this, if not for how Rae Meadows swept me up into this place and time - Mulehead, Oklahoma in the 1930's , where there's......more

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“Through Emily Sutton-Smith’s narration, listeners experience the figurative and literal dust settling deep within the family members…Sutton-Smith’s portrayals of the characters are strong. Especially noteworthy is the soft, uncertain voice of Samuel Bell, the father, as well as that of young Fred, a mute asthmatic..Sutton-Smith delivers a portrait of yearning as penetrating as the dust storms she describes.” AudioFile

“With echoes of Faulkner and Steinbeck, each character chases after a meager form of comfort and stability.” Oprah.com

“Evocative…timeless.” New York Times Book Review

“A powerful rendering of human resilience.” Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“A vibrant, absorbing novel that stays with the reader.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The unforgettable characters show grit, determination, and brokenness in equal measure. Verdict: An outstanding choice for book discussion groups.” Library Journal (starred review)

“An exceptional talent for creating vivid imagery and a tender regard for her characters mark Meadows’ new novel.” Booklist (starred review)

“The writing is richly evocative throughout, precise in its depiction of the harsh natural world, and tender in its renderings of the complicated emotional lives of the main characters.” Kirkus Reviews

“Compassion, heartbreak, and not a word out of place.” Darin Strauss, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author

Awards

  • Amazon Best Book of the Month
  • New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
  • Oprah Pick
  • International Dublin Literary Award
  • Indie Next Recommendation
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