The Book of Rain
A Novel
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
FINALIST, ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE
"Audaciously imaginative. . . . I wish more books surprised me as much as this one did."—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise
"Wondrous."—Eden Robinson, author of the Trickster trilogy
A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Greenwood.
The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. After the town is evacuated, the whole region is cordoned off, the new no-go zone wryly nicknamed "the Park."
Three intertwined stories flow from that disaster.
Years after Alex…