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Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club)
2 journalers for this copy...
I really liked this book full of laughter and tears.
RELEASE NOTES:
They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island- a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations.
Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall On Your Knees follows four remarkable sisters whose lives are filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Their experiences will take them from their stormswept homeland, across the battlefields of World War 1, to the freedom and independance of Jazz-erra New York City.
Compellingly written, running the literary gamut from menacingly dark to hilariously funny, this is an epic saga of one family's trials and triumphs in a world of sin, guilt, and redemtion.
They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island- a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations.
Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall On Your Knees follows four remarkable sisters whose lives are filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Their experiences will take them from their stormswept homeland, across the battlefields of World War 1, to the freedom and independance of Jazz-erra New York City.
Compellingly written, running the literary gamut from menacingly dark to hilariously funny, this is an epic saga of one family's trials and triumphs in a world of sin, guilt, and redemtion.
I have avoided most Oprah Book Club things but the wait at the doctor's was intermidable. And anything with Northern Canada/Arctic will suck me in everytime.
Picked it up June 13.
Cleaned off the bird poop.
Can't say I loved the story because it was not a happy subject (incest, like charity, begins at home) but I do wish McDonald had gone even deeper into the characters. And I can't believe I'm saying that; it is a chunky tome. I spent a lot more time than I usually do thinking about a fictional person's motivation and How They Got There.
Covers some Northeastern Canadian history during the turn of the 20th Century that is a bit of an eyeopener. Revolves around the effects of physical and self-imposed isolation.
If the subject matter doesn't turn your stomach (it's not obtuse, though), read it on the beach, read it in the rain, do not read it with your family at Thanksgiving.
For those who must have resolution at the end of a story, you get your wish with this one. And the ending is sort of happy. In a way.
As far as I know, it's going to Montana today, 7/6, with my sister-in-law.
Picked it up June 13.
Cleaned off the bird poop.
Can't say I loved the story because it was not a happy subject (incest, like charity, begins at home) but I do wish McDonald had gone even deeper into the characters. And I can't believe I'm saying that; it is a chunky tome. I spent a lot more time than I usually do thinking about a fictional person's motivation and How They Got There.
Covers some Northeastern Canadian history during the turn of the 20th Century that is a bit of an eyeopener. Revolves around the effects of physical and self-imposed isolation.
If the subject matter doesn't turn your stomach (it's not obtuse, though), read it on the beach, read it in the rain, do not read it with your family at Thanksgiving.
For those who must have resolution at the end of a story, you get your wish with this one. And the ending is sort of happy. In a way.
As far as I know, it's going to Montana today, 7/6, with my sister-in-law.
