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Hailed by ZZ Packer as "a master of tone, detail, and imagery", Andrew Siegrist's debut collection We Imagined it was Rain is a love song to Tennessee. These loosely connected stories are imbued with tenderness, seriousness, and an understanding of the human spirit. A young man moves to the mountains and builds an heirloom chest in the wake of his son's death, a town official must make the decision to execute a circus elephant, two siblings help their father commit suicide, a preacher picks up the pieces of his ruined church, and his marriage, after a devastating flood, locals share stories of the girl with eyelashes so long she can braid them, a lonely man uses rain to paint. A striking and thoughtful debut, Siegrist demonstrates careful attention to the smallest moments, to the rain on a window pane.