The Bow End of Rain

A remarkable biography with a novelistic style that portrays the life of an ordinary mother and reveals the extraordinary character within. Fascinating, wistful, humorous, woeful, lyrical and deeply moving; a portrait in words sustained by profound love. This is a true story told in two voices; one of a mother, Dorry, and the other of a daughter, Bern. Dorry talks out her story in Bern s presence. She wanders along her life path and tells it all as she remembers. Her mind often wanders from incident to incident without any special attention to the sequence in which these incidents happen. During Dorry s conversations, Bern relives her own childhood and reveals her view of her world in a stream of consciousness that is hidden and very private. She tells her own story in this way. In the telling, the reader becomes involved in worlds that often relate to the same incidents from very different standpoints. Both protagonists are drawn one to the other because they see commonality in the intricacies of their relationships with Hugh, husband and father, and the six other children in the family.