Momma's Rain

Winter 1957 Billings Montana. Seven year old Tommy is the oldest child in the Sterner family. At this time he has two younger brothers and a two-year-old sister. Tommy’s dad is a roofer a job that is dictated by the weather. He’s also an alcoholic and a mean one at that. Almost daily Jackie Tommy’s brother will do something that his dad doesn’t like resulting in a beating with the belt and standing in the corner and heaven forbid if he comes home drunk looking for a fight. That''s when Tommy''s mother gets the bad end of his fist and boot. Carroll is the glue that keeps the family together. She does everything she can to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Tommy’s dad on the other hand will blow every penny he can get his hands on to keep him in alcohol. The kids can go hungry and the landlord can evict them as long as he has his drinking money. Momma’s Rain is a fascinating account of a life full of poverty abuse and addiction and yet; survival hope and love. As the story progresses mother and son must consider the mysteries of their life in a world filled with impulses of curiosity along with the complexity of surviving nature life and death.