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Rae Meadows

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in Brussels, Belgium

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Rae Meadows is the author of the forthcoming WINTERLAND and four previous novels: Calling Out, No One Tells Everything, Mercy Train (in hardcover as Mothers and Daughters), and most recently, I Will Send Rain, which was an Indie Next pick, and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. She is the recipient of the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, the Hackney Literary Award for the novel, and the Utah Book Award, and her work has been published widely. Meadows lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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Hey, my name is Haley. I was wondering if there are anymore pieces of writings you are currently working on or pieces we shall expect in the future?

Rae Meadows Hi, Haley, thanks so much for the question. I admit that I am not actively sitting down to write these weeks leading up to the book launch (and caring…moreHi, Haley, thanks so much for the question. I admit that I am not actively sitting down to write these weeks leading up to the book launch (and caring for two kids on summer break), but I am writing, in a sense that I am working out an idea in my head. After I finished writing this current novel, I went to the town in the Oklahoma Panhandle that I fictionalized. I was really taken by it for all its beauty, starkness, loneliness, and anger. I plan on writing my next book about a modern-day "Mulehead", and I may have Birdie--who is a teenager in I Will Send Rain--return as an old woman. I like the idea of linking the books without the second being a true sequel. I wrote a non-fiction piece about my visit to the Panhandle--I went with a photographer--and that will appear on the website Lit Hub on 8/22.
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Average rating: 3.67 · 5,049 ratings · 1,149 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Will Send Rain 3.71 avg rating — 2,608 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winterland 3.92 avg rating — 1,027 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mothers and Daughters 3.39 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mercy Train 3.45 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Calling Out 3.22 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No One Tells Everything 3.58 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Paperback!

Hello GR friends,

After the last presidential election, I went on hiatus from social media and Goodreads to focus on writing a new novel. Hope to have news on that one soon!

In the meantime, I Will Send Rain comes out in paperback on November 28th.

I hope to be back on GR very soon. Reviews of the many books teetering on my desk are not going to write themselves.

Happy fall, all!

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Rae Meadows made a comment on her review of The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels, #2) " Hi Angela! I know, I took a long hiatus with various life things. But I hope to return soon and start talking books again. I have a new novel coming o ...more "
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“In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?”
― Rae Meadows, Mothers and Daughters

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“Maybe next year. Everything was maybe next year.”
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“His dreams were getting more frightful—rising black swirls of water, cars floating by like river bugs—but he didn’t know much about how to build a boat. The steam box was a start, even if he couldn’t tell Annie, even though the line between faith and becoming unhinged seemed perilously narrow.”
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April Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 books move onto the second poll.

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12 votes, 18.8%

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by Paula McLain

8 votes, 12.5%

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5 votes, 7.8%

Before I Fall

by Lauren Oliver

5 votes, 7.8%

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

by Katarina Bivald

5 votes, 7.8%

I Let You Go

by Clare Mackintosh

4 votes, 6.3%

Luckiest Girl Alive

by Jessica Knoll

4 votes, 6.3%

I Will Send Rain

by Rae Meadows

4 votes, 6.3%

The Ballroom

by Anna Hope

4 votes, 6.3%

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

by Sue Klebold

3 votes, 4.7%

Baby Doll

by Hollie Overton

3 votes, 4.7%

Good Kings Bad Kings

by Susan Nussbaum

0 votes, 0.0%

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