The Rain Bride

Social and familial relationships constitute the frame of reference from which Buthaina Al-Essa draws in her novel “The Rain Bride,” observing a series of intertwined, multifaceted relationships with differing perspectives.
These relationships, which the novel explores, are revealed through its treatment of twins Osama and Asma. Fate has made the boy handsome, while the girl becomes an ugly-faced girl… living in psychological isolation and disappointment. While each character in the novel has a destiny they contribute to shaping, the general background and fate often play a fundamental role in determining the path and fate of the main characters. These two protagonists, Osama and Asma, are set in this atmosphere, often interspersed with Kuwaiti colloquial expressions. Through it, the novelist succeeded in weaving a personal tale of a girl living on the margins. Days betrayed her. I read it, I read it. They made her life a series of imposed conditions and a narrow margin of choices. Even the chosen margin came in the context of a reaction, an escape from reality, and adapting to new developments. She chose to live with her brother because her father divorced her mother and married three other women. The names became twenty brothers and sisters she did not know. She says somewhere in the novel, “When we are born female, we are born with issues because the world is equipped with technologies ready to limit us.” I think that a woman who grows up in a country or in a male-dominated home is a lucky woman because the opportunity is available to her to fight. She has many opportunities to become a role model. She is big just because she is a woman. I will read it.
And she is equipped with a ready-made case…
Based on this statement, which in turn summarizes this character’s life and story, the author wanted to suggest that a person does not choose their life for themselves, but rather that fate, coincidences, and the place of a person’s birth play a role in the course of their entire life. We do not even choose our shapes, our colors, and our environments. Is it human impotence in the face of the inevitability of reality? Asmaa says in the folds of the novel, “Perhaps the world should cease to exist. The features of things should fade away, all these colors, smells, and tasks that must be done… I wish they would become extinct… Have mercy on me and on all those unable to keep up, unable to be consistent, unable to remain on the surface of the world like a festering pimple. A little noble extinction, and a lot of whiteness, empty lines, listening, and… There I can think less, close my eyes more, and let the world go by without me.” Thus, despite the novel’s pain, Buthaina Al-Essa has succeeded in presenting a work in which literature fulfills its function and role, informs and entertains, informs and reflects, and is worth reading.