A Non-Binary Teenager, An Ancestral Home, and a Ghost: Finding Identity in 'Rain Must Fall'

It’s Pride Month and this book gives us several reasons to centre our conversation around it. A teenager has found their identity and is making an effort to convey it to the world. In the course of it, they find a friend, in a ghost. This is where you start noticing intersectionality in the story. The supernatural presence of Rain serves as a catalyst for the protagonist’s exploration of their non-binary identity. This interplay between the ghostly and the corporeal invites a discussion on the ontological fluidity of identity.The narrative of Rain Must Fall is deeply intertwined with the past, particularly through the setting of the ancestral home. This temporal layering tells a lot about the evolution and recognition of non-binary identities.