Where the Rain Cannot Reach

By Adesina Brown | Paperback

Tair has never known what it means to belong. Abandoned at a young age and raised in the all-Elven valley of Mirte, the young Human defines herself by isolation, confined to her small, seemingly trustworthy family.

Abruptly, that family uproots her from Mirte and leads her on an inevitable but treacherous journey to Doman: the previous site of unspeakable Human atrocities and the current home of Dwarvenkind. Though Doman offers Tair new definitions of family and love, it also reveals to her that her very existence is founded in lies. Now, tasked with an awful responsibility to the Humans of Sossoa, Tair must decide where her loyalties lie and, in the process, discover who she wants to be... And who she has always been.

In their debut fantasy novel Where the Rain Cannot Reach, Adesina Brown constructs a world rich with new languages and nuanced considerations of gender and race, ultimately contemplating how, in freeing ourselves from power, we may find true belonging.

About the Author

Adesina (uh-day-sin-uh) is a biracial Black Trinidadian and white queer, non-binary, 22-year-old person. They were raised on unceded Tongva territory (“Los Angeles, CA”) and currently resides on unceded Chinook territority (“Portland, OR”). Their work has been featured in Minola Review, Rigorous Magazine, Exposition Review, and more. Where the Rain Cannot Reach, Book One of Doman’s Despair, is their debut fantasy novel, published by Atmosphere Press in December 2021. They are currently creating a poetry collection and a new speculative fiction series. They are also an editor for Perennial Press and a Room Collective member, after having been a mentee to Téa Mutonji in the Room Magazine 2021 Mentor-In-Residence Program. On the rare occasion they are not writing, editing, or reading, they like to care for their plants, listen to music, and rest.