What The Rain Revealed

What The Rain Revealed is the story of Ruth Chikolola and many women: the ones selling bananas in the rain, the ones building businesses from careful margins, the ones raising children while rebuilding themselves. It is also for anyone who has ever been handed a possibility they were not sure they deserved, and did the rest themselves. The setting of this novel is Lilongwe, Malawi, and the people in it are imagined, though the circumstances they navigate are drawn from a world that is entirely real.
The proverb that opens this book - "He who went to see the lake also saw the hippopotamus" - is a reminder that we cannot seek what is beautiful without also encountering what is difficult. This story is, among other things, about that encounter, and what you choose to do with it.