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Young Tessa is a diminutive woman, much too small for plantation work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to have confidence in nothing at all beyond his crops, definitely not education for his misfit little princess. When a incomprehensible, entrancing librarian involves town, full of fabulous testimonies, earthy intelligence and potions for the lovelorn, she calls for Tessa under her wing, teaching her to learn and to have confidence in herself and a whole new sensational world of choices starts up. But even as she blooms, Tessa's father commences sexually abusing her. And her mentor carries a dark top secret of her own that finally causes her to drown herself. Tessa runs off, following Mary's footsteps, to join the circus as a trapeze artist, where she marries a loving man and detects a fulfilling life for herself amidst her new circus family. But she remains haunted by her history. And when a stranger from one of Mary's fabulist tales turns up, Tessa dangers everything to check out him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentor's tragic top secret. A brilliantly evocative debut set in the early area of the 20th century, steeped in emotional turbulence and down-to-earth intelligence, in which a young woman must reconcile the interior traumas from her history and learn to live in the present to avoid becoming prisoner to her future. Rain Village casts the perfect spell, pulling us into an environment of mystery and probability where love, friendship and loyalty might either kill or establish one free.
