How I Came To Love The Rain: A Novel

He never believed in love. Then he turned around.On an ordinary July morning in Sarajevo, a young man walks into medical school expecting lectures, competition, difficult exams, and a future he does not yet fully understand.Then he sees Edina.One glance becomes another. Curiosity becomes fascination. Fascination becomes something he can no longer control. Slowly, everything he thought he understood about love begins to fall apart.But this is not a simple love story.There are confessions that come too soon, rejection, distance, pride, late night conversations, years of uncertainty, and the strange certainty that some people are simply meant to remain important no matter how much time passes.While medicine teaches him how the human body works, Edina teaches him something far more difficult: how to understand his own heart.As they grow older and repeatedly find their way back into each other's lives, ordinary things begin to change.Flowers become beautiful. Waiting becomes worthwhile. And eventually, even the rain becomes something he can love.How I Came to Love the Rain is an intimate contemporary love story about first love, longing, vulnerability, obsession, growing up, and the power one person can have to permanently change the way another person sees the world.Some love stories begin with a kiss.This one began with a look.