Thirty-Eight Days of Rain

Immigrant status just might be as terrifying as pregnancy limbo. Or so English-Greek-Cypriot Androulla Demetriou believes as she straddles the two uncertainties in her life in Eva Asprakis’ THIRTY-EIGHT DAYS OF RAIN. Based in Cyprus, she finds that everything is up in the air – relationships, citizenship, home, work, and love. How will she and fiancé Giannis care for a child – when one’s a freelance writer, the other, a bartender? Author Asprakis make her anxieties palpable and readers will empathize with her emotions.