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Rae Meadows

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Rae Meadows is the author of the forthcoming WINTERLAND and four previous novels: Calling Out, No One Tells Everything, Mercy Train (in hardcover as Mothers and Daughters), and most recently, I Will Send Rain, which was an Indie Next pick, and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. She is the recipient of the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, the Hackney Literary Award for the novel, and the Utah Book Award, and her work has been published widely. Meadows lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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Hey, my name is Haley. I was wondering if there are anymore pieces of writings you are currently working on or pieces we shall expect in the future?

Rae Meadows Hi, Haley, thanks so much for the question. I admit that I am not actively sitting down to write these weeks leading up to the book launch (and caring…moreHi, Haley, thanks so much for the question. I admit that I am not actively sitting down to write these weeks leading up to the book launch (and caring for two kids on summer break), but I am writing, in a sense that I am working out an idea in my head. After I finished writing this current novel, I went to the town in the Oklahoma Panhandle that I fictionalized. I was really taken by it for all its beauty, starkness, loneliness, and anger. I plan on writing my next book about a modern-day "Mulehead", and I may have Birdie--who is a teenager in I Will Send Rain--return as an old woman. I like the idea of linking the books without the second being a true sequel. I wrote a non-fiction piece about my visit to the Panhandle--I went with a photographer--and that will appear on the website Lit Hub on 8/22.
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Average rating: 3.7 · 6,944 ratings · 1,441 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Will Send Rain 3.71 avg rating — 2,807 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winterland 3.85 avg rating — 2,646 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mercy Train 3.44 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calling Out 3.24 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No One Tells Everything 3.56 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violets Vermächtnis 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hello GR friends,

After the last presidential election, I went on hiatus from social media and Goodreads to focus on writing a new novel. Hope to have news on that one soon!

In the meantime, I Will Send Rain comes out in paperback on November 28th.

I hope to be back on GR very soon. Reviews of the many books teetering on my desk are not going to write themselves.

Happy fall, all!

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Verbose, indulgent, claustrophobic, repetitive. Good lord this book needed an editor! The most engaging parts are about Molly. Less interesting, the author's musings. Darkness does not equal meaningful/deep. Mental illness is given short shrift here, ...more
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Rae Meadows and 62 other people liked Macey Spensley's review of Molly: "There are some beautiful, tender moments in this book. I respect why the author felt the need to write it. I really don’t think he had a right to share Molly’s old journal entries. But my biggest lingering thought: did a SINGLE editor touch this book" Read more of this review »
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“In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?”
― Rae Meadows, Mothers and Daughters

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“Maybe next year. Everything was maybe next year.”
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“AS THE DARKNESS grew, and with Samuel gone, Annie thought she’d join her children upstairs, but she stopped outside the door when she heard Birdie mention Cy’s name. Since he’d left, Birdie spoke to her in short angry sentences, as if Cy’s leaving were Annie’s fault. She wished she could hold her and say she understood. She had more in common with Birdie than she could admit. But she knew how trying to talk to her would go. They were each spinning in the dark, like flies in a glass of water, flapping around for something to latch onto. Something”
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I Let You Go

by Clare Mackintosh

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Luckiest Girl Alive

by Jessica Knoll

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I Will Send Rain

by Rae Meadows

4 votes, 6.3%

The Ballroom

by Anna Hope

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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

by Sue Klebold

3 votes, 4.7%

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Good Kings Bad Kings

by Susan Nussbaum

0 votes, 0.0%

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