Fall On Your Knees:A Novel

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.

First sentence: A LONG TIME AGO, BEFORE you were born, there lived a family called Piper on Cape Breton Island.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

A Touchstone Book

Editions

29

Reader rating

4.0 / 5 (5)

Pages

508

ISBN

9780743237185

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