6/30/2023 0 Comments Rainwater by sandra brown![]() ![]() In Browns novel, the hero has no such illustrious (or nefarious) past he oversaw his fathers cotton empire prior to his cancer diagnosis. The similarities stop there: Bacalls characters son is a teenaged Ron Howard, who idolizes Waynes characters gunslinger past. As I read, I was reminded often of the classic western film The Shootist, which starred Lauren Bacall, as the proprietor of a boarding house, and an aging (and already ill himself) John Wayne, as a dying gunman who moves into the house to spend his final weeks of life. Brown tackles the 1930s unflinchingly, its toxic racism, and its dearth of knowledge about cancer treatment, autism, and more in a moving, subtle, and winsome way. The heroine is the mother of an almost-ten-year-old autistic son, and the titular hero is a man dying of metastatic bone cancer. The novel is set in Browns beloved Texas, but it is a novel of sweet, aching complexity. After reading the book, I understand what she meant. This novel is preceded by a preface in which the author explains that this book was written between her more usual novels blockbuster romantic suspense, that it simply couldnt go unwritten. ![]()
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