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Fall on Your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald

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#4114 of 8,085 books · #646 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (1996).

The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped by James. A first novel set in Nova Scotia early this century.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
ISBN-13
9781587242588
Topics
Family trauma and secretsAbuse and incestDeath and grief

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