Thirty-Eight Days of Rain: Winner of the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction

WINNER of the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction. A 2026 Indies Today Award Runner-Up. A 2025 New York Book Festival General Fiction Award Honorable Mention. Longlisted for the 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award. A 2024 NoMo Book Club Pick. A March 2024 NetGalley Book of the Month. A March 2024 IndieReader Approved and Best Reviewed Book. A March 2024 Reedsy Discovery Featured Recommendation.

'Asprakis executes this character study with nuance and complexity...smart' Kirkus Reviews

'A sad but uplifting novel about a young couple’s immigration struggles and love for their cultural heritage. Eva Asprakis is a gifted writer, and Thirty-Eight Days of Rain deserves attention for its focus on the problems of young-adult émigrés' Alicia Rudnicki for IndieReader

'Well-written, thoughtful, and often poignantly tender, Thirty-Eight Days of Rain will resonate with anyone who has ever questioned their place in the world' the BookLife Prize

'Profoundly reflective...a poetic meditation on resilience and hope' Dinos Toumazos for Agora Dialogue

'A charming and relatable story that will appeal to readers who enjoy literary and contemporary fiction focusing on women's issues and family dynamics' Kerry K for Reedsy Discovery

'An engrossing and fascinating exploration of the complexity of identity and belonging' Polis Loizou, author of A Good Year

“What matters more, your place as a daughter or as a mother?”

Androulla is twenty-four and newly married when she learns that she is infertile. In a bid for Cypriot citizenship she is undergoing adoption by her stepfather, and wondering if she will have to adopt a child one day herself.

As this reality sets in, Androulla’s marriage unravels. Between migration departments and doctors’ appointments, she must question what it means to be from somewhere, what it means to be a woman and, when an impossible choice presents itself, which of those things means the most to her.