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There Are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

Start date: January 1, 2025

Finish date: February 28, 2025

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September-October 2025: The River Knows Your Name
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Jan 25, 2025 Maureen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

It all began with a single raindrop. “As ripples of heat rise into the air, the raindrop will slowly evaporate. But it won’t disappear, sooner or later that tiny translucent bead of water will ascend back to the blue skies. Once there it will bide its time waiting to return to this troubled earth again and again.”

It starts in the ancient city of Nineveh 640BCE It reaches Arthur in 1840 on the River Thames as a snowflake, but that snowflake was a rain drop long ago. It carries memories of previou ...more

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Feb 20, 2025 Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Jenn Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ Schu rated it really liked it

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Dec 10, 2024 Lory Sakay rated it really liked it

Shelves: book-club-reads

Beautiful writing, beautiful interconnected time lines. This is a story like no other I've read. It connects the characters through the existence and transformational property of water. There is even a table at the end, further including the essence of water in the story. It also informed me of the history of a geographical area and people I know little about (always a wonderful bonus)). I'll be looking out for more books by this very skilled author.

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