'By turns fizzy and funny poignant and sad A Mirror Made of Rain is an acute intensely readable exploration of hurt and resilience.' - Namita Gokhale
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.