Hailstones Fell Without Rain

Natalia Figueroa Barroso

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Queensland Univ. Press
29 July 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

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For lovers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Angie Cruz comes this extraordinary debut novel from Uruguayan-Australian author Natalia Figueroa Barroso. The power of Hailstones Fell without Rain lies in its pacy, multi-generational story and its memorable, wise and sharply funny characters.

Graciela is a Uruguayan migrant struggling to raise her three daughters in Western Sydney- her life feels like just one bill after another, and she's reaching breaking point. Chula, her elderly aunt, is still waiting for justice after living through the civic-military coup of 1973 in Uruguay. And Rita, Graciela's eldest daughter, wants to escape the constraints of her family but finds herself indelibly tied to the ghosts of her mother's past.

Dazzling, multilayered and often sharply funny, Hailstones Fell without Rain tells the story of these three indomitable women from one working-class family. As the novel moves across time and place, from Western Sydney to Uruguay and back again, we realise that buried secrets and family trauma will always resurface, but it's also possible for broken connections to mend.

By: Natalia Figueroa Barroso
Imprint: Queensland Univ. Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 344g
ISBN: 9780702268816
ISBN 10: 070226881X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Natalia Figueroa Barroso is a writer of Uruguayan origins who lives on Dharug Ngura Country. Her poems and stories have been shortlisted for the 2015 Lane Cove Literary Award and longlisted for the 2021 Newcastle Poetry Prize, the 2021 SBS Voices Emerging Writers' Competition and the 2022 Palette Emerging Poet Prize. She is a member of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and Hailstones Fell without Rain is her debut work of semi-autobiographical fiction.