The Historical Novel Society’s Review of Rain Breaks No Bones

November, 2024

Excerpt from The Historical Novel Society

This evocative novel is everything a reader could want in a family saga: love, loyalty and secrets, which, through seemingly necessary lies, get larger and larger, making coming clean exponentially more difficult. This is the third in Taylor’s Scranton series, novels interconnected by family which are very enjoyable as standalones. With superb descriptive detail, the atmosphere is steeped in the time period, and the inherent risk involved in interracial relationships is explored with care … It’s easy to feel drawn to these people living ordinary lives in a mid-century America on the cusp of great change as the old makes way for the new. This will be a particularly poignant finale for those who have followed the series.

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