{"product_id":"thirty-eight-days-of-rain","title":"Thirty-Eight Days of Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER of the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction. A 2026 Indies Today Award Runner-Up. A 2025 New York Book Festival General Fiction Award Honorable Mention. Longlisted for the 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award. A 2024 NoMo Book Club Pick. A March 2024 NetGalley Book of the Month. A March 2024 IndieReader Approved and Best Reviewed Book. A March 2024 Reedsy Discovery Featured Recommendation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Asprakis executes this character study with nuance and complexity...smart' Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A sad but uplifting novel about a young couple's immigration struggles and love for their cultural heritage...Eva Asprakis is a gifted writer, and Thirty-Eight Days of Rain deserves attention for its focus on the problems of young-adult émigrés' Alicia Rudnicki for IndieReader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Well-written, thoughtful, and often poignantly tender, Thirty-Eight Days of Rain will resonate with anyone who has ever questioned their place in the world' the BookLife Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Profoundly reflective...a poetic meditation on resilience and hope' Dinos Toumazos for Agora Dialogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A charming and relatable story that will appeal to readers who enjoy literary and contemporary fiction focusing on women's issues and family dynamics' Kerry K for Reedsy Discovery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An engrossing and fascinating exploration of the complexity of identity and belonging' Polis Loizou, author of A Good Year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What matters more, your place as a daughter or as a mother?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndroulla is twenty-four and newly married when she learns that she is infertile. In a bid for Cypriot citizenship she is undergoing adoption by her stepfather, and wondering if she will have to adopt a child one day herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs this reality sets in, Androulla’s marriage unravels. Between migration departments and doctors’ appointments, she must question what it means to be from somewhere, what it means to be a woman and, when an impossible choice presents itself, which of those things means the most to her.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dog-Eared Pages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52789176566079,"sku":"9781399976930","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/4408\/5055\/files\/9781399976930.jpg?v=1776267864","url":"https:\/\/dogearedpages.net\/products\/thirty-eight-days-of-rain","provider":"Dog-Eared Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}