If Only the Rain Would Come by Sypolt, Natalie
If Only the Rain Would Come by Sypolt, Natalie

If Only the Rain Would Come

At the center of this gritty novel-in-stories is Hazel. A teacher at the local elementary school, she...
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Author: Natalie Sypolt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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If Only the Rain Would Come by Sypolt, Natalie

If Only the Rain Would Come

$33.54
If Only the Rain Would Come by Sypolt, Natalie

If Only the Rain Would Come

$33.54
Author: Natalie Sypolt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

At the center of this gritty novel-in-stories is Hazel. A teacher at the local elementary school, she is intelligent, introspective, and lonely. When Hazel's secret lover, Walker, dies and his identical twin, Sam, comes home from Afghanistan looking just like the dead, Hazel's world is shaken. But her life appears the same to strangers--having exchanged one married twin in her bed for another.

As Hazel's relationship with Sam deepens, the community and their intertwined lives rise to the forefront: Andy, a teenager struggling with his father's death; Rachel, an outsider concealing trauma from her youth; Gina, a girl searching for belonging in the wake of placing her child for adoption; and Sam, a veteran haunted by ghosts of the past. As the residents of Warm, West Virginia, cope with addiction, grief, poverty, and abandonment, Hazel must confront her own life choices and weigh their cost.

Revealed through a brilliant chorus of voices with dialogue that sings off the page, Natalie Sypolt's If Only the Rain Would Come is unflinchingly honest and deeply human.



Author: Natalie Sypolt
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/07/2026
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.35w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9781985903937

About the Author

Natalie Sypolt is the author of The Sound of Holding Your Breath. Her writing has appeared in Appalachian Review, Still: The Journal, Superstition Review, Paste, Willow Springs Magazine, and The Kenyon Review Online. Sypolt is the winner of the Glimmer Train New Writers Contest, the Betty Gabehart Prize, the West Virginia Fiction Award, and the Still fiction contest. She is associate professor of English at Pierpont Community & Technical College and former president of the Appalachian Studies Association.


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