Full Circle Book Club
hosted by Eleonora Balsano

Small Rain

Culture / Thurs 22nd May / 7:00-8:30 pm

Monthly meet up to discuss a great read, along with drinks & good company

Open to everyone | Booking required

Bar open

“Greenwell―such a finely tuned, generous writer―transforms a savage illness into a meditation on a vital life.” ―Kirkus Reviews 

A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value―art, memory, poetry, music, care―are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Garth Greenwell is an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and educator. He has published the novella Mitko and the novels What Belongs to You (the "first great novel of 2016" by Publishers Weekly), Cleanness, and Small Rain. He has also published stories in The Paris Review and A Public Space and writes criticism for The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Greenwell's third book, Small Rain (2024), was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

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ADDITIONAL INFO 

FOOD & DRINK	EVENT SIZE	WHEELCHAIR
Bar open with snacks	Small (10-20)	Available on request