Where When It Rains won the National Indie Excellence Award for Best Southwest Fiction in 2026 and was ranked as a Best Read of the Year by IndependentBookReview.com in 2024.
John F Duffy’s second novel, it is about a young man losing his way in the world and struggling to decide if it’s worth finding his way back.
“As painful as it can be at times, Where When It Rains is lovely. Dark, bleak, and hopeless, but lovely nonetheless. The care with which it handles its broken but genuine characters, the way it allows the story to unravel at its own uneven pace, the wonderful little additions of seemingly superfluous storylines all build a powerful narrative that will stay with you long after it is done.”
– Independent Book Review
