Small Rain
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · 2025 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | 2025 | Winner |
About This Book
A novel about a poet hospitalised with a serious medical crisis, exploring illness, mortality, and the phenomenology of the body.
About the Author
Garth GreenwellAmerican
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 →
