Rain God

<p><strong><em>The Rain God</em> is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return in times like these is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers. -- Luis Alberto Urrea bestselling author of <em>The House of Broken Angels </em>and <em>The Hummingbird's Daughter</em></strong></p><p><strong>Rivers rivulets fountains and waters flow but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God.</strong></p><p>A beloved Southwestern classic--as beautiful subtle and profound as the desert itself--Arturo Islas's <em>The Rain God</em> is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature. </p><p>Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border it tells the funny sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness--sinners torn by loves lusts and dangerous desires. From gentle hearts plagued by violence and epic delusions to a child who con foretell the coming of rain in the sweet scent of angels here is a rich and poignant tale of outcasts struggling to live and die with dignity . . . and to hold onto their past while embracing an unsteady future.</p>