As Ren and the soldier hunt for the heron, a bond between them forms, and the painful details of Ren’s former life emerge-a life punctuated by loss, trauma, and a second, equally magical and dangerous creature. Ren insists that the bird is simply a story, yet the soldier will not be deterred, forcing them both into a gruelling quest.Spellbinding and immersive, Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron is an astounding, mythical exploration of human resilience, female friendship, and humankind’s precarious relationship to nature.
But her quiet stability is disrupted when an army unit, led by a young female soldier, comes to the mountains on government orders in search of a legendary creature called the rain heron-a mythical, dangerous, form-shifting bird with the ability to change the weather. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting, farming, trading, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. A gripping novel of myth, environment, adventure, and an unlikely friendship, from an award-winning Australian authorRen lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d'état. One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021. Beautifully written." -Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne. "Astonishing.With the intensity of a perfect balance between the mythic and the real, The Rain Heron keeps turning and twisting, taking you to unexpected places.
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