Nicholas Arons, Waiting for Rain

Nicholas Arons, Waiting for Rain - Studs Terkel gives this an amazing review. Waiting for Rain dramatically depicts a region still suffering from austere social and political realities, where drought - even during rainy seasons - is ubiquitous in the hearts and minds of its residents. A book of hope and resistance, myth and reality, and suffering and salvation, it is also a personal narrative of self-discovery, tracing a young man's struggle to understand how human tragedy on a grand scale can exist alongside natural beauty.