Small Rain
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2025 | Winner |
About This Book
A poet in his forties is hospitalised with a sudden, serious illness in Iowa, and the novel chronicles the weeks he spends there—his relationship with his partner L., his body's vulnerability, the nurses and doctors who care for him, and his mind's restless journeying through memory, literature, and the natural world. A quietly devastating novel about the body, love, and the necessity of art. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award.
About the Author
Garth Greenwell is an American author and poet. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1978, he studied at Harvard University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and spent several years teaching in Bulgaria, an experience that informed his fiction. His debut novella Mitko (2011), later expanded into the novel What Belongs to You (2016), is a psychologically intense account of a gay American teacher's obsessive relationship with a Bulgarian hustler in Sofia. Read more →
