num_pages: 172
description: Life wasn't always hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo. There were good times living with her mother and her mother's lawyer boyfriend. Now her mother is dying of AIDS and the terrible thing that stole Mvelo's song remains unspoken despite its growing presence in their shack. But a series of choices chance meetings and Shakespearean comedy-style exposures of hidden identities hands Mvelo a golden opportunity to overcome hardship.We Kiss Them With Rain explores both humor and tragedy in this modern-day fairytale set in a squatter camp outside Durban South Africa in which the things that seem to be are only a faade and the things that are revealed and unveiled create a happier thoroughly believable alternative.We walk amongst the livingWe the departed . . .We wander the earthWondering about the orphans we left behindWe kiss them with rain . . .
language: English
title: We Kiss Them with Rain
publisher: Catalyst Press