The Rain Catchers

The Rain Catchers
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12+
Release Date
March 25, 1991
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0380717115
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Beyond YesterdayEvery story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's the way it is at grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and tales of death and divorce, illness and abandonment are shared by grandmother's circle of friends. The women watch over one another and eveyone watches over Grayling -- whose own story has never been told her to hear.But in a summer of many changes, fourteen-year-old Grayling encounters love and romance, joy and saddness...and the need to know her own story -- from the very beginning.

Beyond YesterdayEvery story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's the way it is at grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and tales of death and divorce, illness and abandonment are shared by grandmother's circle of friends. The women watch over one another and eveyone watches over Grayling -- whose own story has never been told her to hear.But in a summer of many changes, fourteen-year-old Grayling encounters love and romance, joy and saddness...and the need to know her own story -- from the very beginning.

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Looking back, "The Rain Catchers" seems like a very unrealistic book, but I also remember how good it was. Teenager Greyling lives with an assortment of older women (including her grandmother) in an idyllic house where stories are told over tea and rain water is collected for washing hair. Along with her best friend, Colleen, who has an awful home life, Greyling learns plenty of life lessons but still longs for her widowed mother, who lives by herself in San Francisco. When Greyling goes to visit, she discovers a story that has long been wondered about over afternoon tea, and must make some decisions of her own.

Like I said, many parts of the plot seem unrealistic (including Greyling randomly trying to purchase a gun on the streets of San Francisco...), and the mom is one of Thesman's usual bad-mother stereotypes, but the story is still an enjoyable teen mix of romance, family relationships, and life lessons.
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