![]() ![]() To be more descriptive would give away some major spoilers. ![]() ![]() Queerness is most definitely a secret in this world, and one of the Piper family's secrets is a heartbreaking lesbian love story that is, in some ways, the emotional lynchpin of the novel. This is a story about the secrets people keep in a small town and in a close-knit family. These four are some of the loveliest, most vivid characters I've come across in recent years. The four girls wrestle with the past, and struggle to find their own path in life. The Piper family is held together by duty and music and Catholic guilt, and the four Piper sisters grow up haunted by the sins of their parents and grandparents. It's full of black humor, humanity, and hope as it tells the story of four daughters in a lonely, turn-of-the-century island town in Novia Scotia. The first line of the book is “They’re all dead now.”īut this is far from an unrelentingly bleak novel. Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie Macdonald, makes no bones about being a gothic tale about a doomed family. ![]()
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