Small Rain

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , Financial Times , New Statesman , Vox , Elle , Publishers Weekly , and BookPage A New Yorker Recommended Read of the Year A New York Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and luminous nove