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The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance. She also cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose misunderstood behavior finds Ella on the receiving end of pity, derision, and suspicion. David Rainwater arrives at the house looking for lodging but Ella senses that admitting him will bring about unsettling changes. However, times are hard, so Mr. Rainwater moves in - and impacts her life in ways Ella could never have foreseen.
The changes are echoed by the turbulence beyond the house walls. Friends and neighbors now face financial ruin and in an effort to save their families from homelessness and hunger, are forced to make heart rending choices. The climate of desperation creates a fertile atmosphere for racial tensions and social unrest. Conrad Ellis -- privileged and spoiled and Ella's nemesis...
Bestseller Brown (Smash Cut) brings Depression-era Texas to vivid life in this poignant short novel. At the recommendation of Dr. Murdy Kincaid, Ella Barron, a hardworking woman whose husband deserted her, accepts David Rainwater, a relative of the doctor's, as a lodger at the boarding house she runs in the small town of Gilead, Tex. As the local community contends with a government program to shoot livestock and the opposition of racist Conrad Ellis, a greedy meatpacker, to poor families butchering the meat, Ella grows closer to David. Meanwhile, David becomes a special guardian angel to Solly, Ella's nine-year-old autistic son. Dr. Kincaid has gently suggested Ella put Solly in an institution, but she refuses to do so. Brown skillfully charts the progress of Ella and David's quiet romance, while a contemporary frame adds a neat twist to this heartwarming but never cloying historical. (Nov.)
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Marley Lohan
reviewed Rainwater on March 15, 2015 Rainwater
Written April 19, 2015
4 1/2 Stars - Heartbreaking beautiful. A touching story that will stay with me.
I just finished the 7 hours audiobook, perfect narrated by Victor Slezak, and I'm stunned. Completely stunned.. and impressed. The last part was magnificently emotional. I couldn't otherwise than to bump it up to five stars.
Rainwater is maybe not a book in Sandra Brown's (my favorite this spring) most common style. More a historical novel ' set in between WWI and WWII' than a suspense romance from this author.
So very worth reading (or listening to).
Whatever label or genre, this is a story about a man and a woman. There are a lot of really importans topics added, and some thrilling scenes as well as sweet tender love, strong feelings and intense lust in this remarkable quite short book.
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Texas, U.S. 1934..
Ella Barron is a still young "widow" with a 10 years old boy. A lovely boy who unfortunately has what we nowadays should label as some kind of autism. It's the years after the terrible "great depression', people suffer and the cows are starwing.
Ella runs her old home as a boarding house with fast hand and the grace of a gentlewoman. When a room opens up brings the respected town doctor a mysterious stranger. Mr. David Rainwater, a relative to the doctor, needs a room for just a couple of months. He want's it pretty simple and just some peace and time for himself. Ella is first resistant to opening up her home to this good-looking man but she always need the money, a room is free, and she can't but accept.
Here starts a gripping story.
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Soon is this gentle, without doubt a true southern gentleman, Mr Rainwater changing all there lifes. He start a tiny sparkle in Ella's closed and tightly locked heart. Best of all - he actually sees her son as a sweet boy with possibilities and a future.
They are all charmed by him but Ella is a hard nut to crack. ~ That made this story even better. You have to be patient before any kisses are shared but 'oh' they were lovely good when they come.
"Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story. Would you?"
As much as a story about big love, a nice little boy, sickness, a always hot burning sun, dying cows, ordinary (white and black) people, all set in a very hard past time, is Rainwater also a novel about to be brave, to be a wonderful larger-than-life hero and to do genuinely good things.
The quote above says so much.
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Hugging myself for choosing this great, but quite sad, book this weekend. You can't avoid a few tears, I sobbed, but my heart 'swelled' afterwards thinking about all those genuinely good people back then 1934. The prologue and epilogue added a lot too my feelings too.
Heartbreaking and very well narrated by Mr Slezak. ~ A gem to remember and recommend.
I LIKE - tremendously much.
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