Rain Village casts a fabulous spell, pulling us into a world of mystery and possibility where love, friendship and loyalty might either destroy or set one free.

And when a stranger from one of Marys fabulist tales shows up, Tessa risks everything to follow him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentors tragic secret.Ī brilliantly evocative debut set in the early part of the 20th century, steeped in emotional turbulence and down-to-earth wisdom, where a young woman must reconcile the inner traumas from her past and learn to live in the present in order to avoid becoming prisoner to her future. Tessa runs off, following Marys footsteps, to join the circus as a trapeze artist, where she marries a loving man and finds a fulfilling life for herself amidst her new circus family. And her mentor carries a dark secret of her own that finally causes her to drown herself. But even as she blooms, Tessas father begins sexually abusing her. When a mysterious, entrancing librarian comes to town, full of fabulous stories, earthy wisdom and potions for the lovelorn, she takes Tessa under her wing, teaching her to read and to believe in herselfand a whole new magical world of possibilities opens up. 69 books 603 followers Carolyn Turgeon is the author of five novelsRain Village, Godmother, Mermaid, The Fairest of Them All, and The Next Full Moon, most of them based on old-time fairy tales, dark and glimmeringas well as The Faerie Handbook, The Mermaid Handbook, and The Unicorn Handbook. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not education for his misfit daughter. Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community.

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