 In 1984, "The Small Rain" was reissued by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, the publishers of nearly all of Madeleine L'Engle's other novels since "A Wrinkle in Time" (1962).This current edition, , features a dust jacket by Sam Salant and a new introduction by L'Engle, in which she mentions the continuation of Katherine's story in her 1982 novel "A Severed Wasp".In 1982, L'Engle published a sequel entitled "A Severed Wasp", in which Katherine, now an elderly widow known as Katherine Vigneras after her marriage to her piano teacher and mentor Justin Vigneras, looks back on her life while trying to survive and unravel a frightening mystery at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.