Ashes In The Rain: What do you carry when your country begins to burn?

A literary novel written in real time, during a modern war.

When rockets strike the Thai–Cambodian border, a family of three flees into the jungle. The father carries a medical bag. The boy carries a backpack. The mother holds a green umbrella — and everything else.

Ashes in the Rain is a deeply human, emotionally charged novel written in the days and weeks following the July 2025 border conflict.

Veteran novelist D. Vincent Delorenzo began writing this story one year prior. But when war erupted near his home, he rewrote it while the world burned — infusing every chapter with the smoke, silence, and survival of real-time displacement.

A novel of memory, war, and what we carry when nothing is safe.

For readers of Tim O’Brien, Cormac McCarthy, and Khaled Hosseini.

A Fall 2025 literary award contender.