The Rain Ascends (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joy Kogawa
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Parents and children, Dreams, Child abuse, Incest, Victims, Fathers, Good and evil, Canada or Canadians, Clergy, Buddhism, Rain
- Locales: England, Canada
Kogawa's third novel, The Rain Ascends, presents as narrator and main character Millicent Shelby, a Canadian of British descent. Daughter of an elderly Anglican clergyman, the Reverend Doctor Charles Barnabas Shelby, she has repressed memories of her father's past crimes as a child molester. She feels that she lives in a mental and emotional fog that hides the painful truth that her father was himself abused by an older neighbor boy and later sexually abused hundreds of young boys.
Millicent's older brother, Charlie, distances himself from his father at an early age,...
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