A Bottle of Rain

A Bottle of Rain is that kind of love story involving a mute clown, a blind gypsy fortune-teller, FBI agents, an award-winning poet told to teach fiction, and now the last Kickapoo Indian girl born in Champaign County has, along with her pacemaker, returned to  the Land of Lincoln in search of her parents.  She finds Emily and Jacob instead.  Emily is a telephone operator who has dropped out of college for a horrible reason and is plotting to kill Ronald Reagan, and Jacob is a sad luck divorced college student who mourns the lost time with his daughter each and every day.  All in the year of our Lord, 1986.  Along the way you’ll get a brief history of computers, a not so brief history of the Kickapoo Indian Tribe (told in a somewhat unorthodox manner), a revisionist view of Abraham Lincoln,  and plenty of the most essential elements of a good love story (sex and laughter).