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title: She-Rain: A Story of Hope

author: Michael Cogdill

published: 2010

genre: fiction

pages: 349

first line: Scraps of fog, adrift on the ridges of Appalachia.


rated: 4 out of 5





She-Rain: A Story of Hope is one of those books that really draws you in from page one. Starting off in 1921 in North Carolina, the story is about a young boy named Frankie Locke Junior who witnesses and experiences abuse in his home at the hands of his drug addicted father.


Having a close relationship with his mother and grandparents helps Frank remain strong. At school he meets Mary Lizbeth, and as the years pass the two never forget one another. They form a common bond through the hardships they both suffer.

Like a mountain laurel flower trying to blossom inside a bottle. Pink-white petals pressing soft but determined against the glass. The shared nectar of that bottle had recently become another of my secrets-our secret from the entire town.

Due to an incident concerning his mother, Frankie winds up leaving home. He does it to protect his mother, but his heart breaks at leaving her and Mary Lizbeth behind.


While on the run, a woman named Sophia Proctor helps Frankie. He winds up falling in love with her.

I remember Sophia murmured something about tears healing well, especially when they've been stored and aged a long while from hurts that seem behind us. She cried harder after she said that.

I enjoyed reading She-Rain, it is definitely a story about overcoming hardship and finding and holding onto love. There is alot of sadness to this story, but hope as well. I really liked the relationship between Frank and Mary Lizbeth, and hoped the two would end up together. I also liked how Frank would have flashbacks of his grandmother and the advice she gave him.


This is the type of book that needs to be discussed after reading it, I think it would make a great selection for a book club.

In the rise of crickets and peep frogs, Granny spread out her mountain mystic view of things again, and the whole wagon treated it as sacred for a moment. She'd often speak of how a little scrap of fog tears from a rain cloud. Floats on the waves of blue ridge as if a wisp off a bride. Granny and others called it she-rain, I suppose for its womanly drape, white as a wedding gown.

Author Bio

Michael Cogdill is blessed as one of the most honored television storytellers in America. His cache of awards includes 24 Emmys and the National Edward R. Murrow for a broad range of achievement, from live reporting to long-form storytelling. His television credits as a journalist include CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and The Today Show, and Michael's interview history crosses a wide horizon: The Reverend Billy Graham, Dr. Mehmet Oz of Oprah fame, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Abby Hoffman, Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Howard K. Smith, James Brown, Keith Lockhart of the Boston Pops and many other newsmakers. His coverage credits include Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States.


Michael spent ten years writing She-Rain, letting it evolve into a world of fiction drawn from his upbringing in Western North Carolina but reaching far beyond. His other writing credits are Cracker the Crab and the Sideways Afternoon -- a children's motivational book, and a self-help volume, Raise the Haze. Michael makes his home in South Carolina with his wife, Jill (a publishing entrepreneur), and their second-generation golden retriever, Maggie. He's currently working on his second novel.


For more information, please visit http://she-rain.blogspot.com.





Special thanks to Caitlin over @ FSB Associates for sending me a copy of this book.