A Mirror Made of Rain is a devastating coming-of-age novel about the wounds of inherited trauma.
Noomi Wadia a bright quick-tempered young woman with a penchant for getting into trouble struggles with the fraught relationship she has with her mother. She grows from a lonely wild-hearted teenager to a troubled adult who finds love but not happiness. Soon Noomi realizes that her worst fears have come to pass - she is trapped in the same cycle of self-destructiveness as her mother and she must battle her impulses or risk losing everything.
Naheed Phiroze Patel's astonishing debut brings alive a world and characters that are complex and breathtakingly real and portrays with honesty and empathy the darkness that addiction and mental illness cast over a family.