{"id":5617,"date":"2020-03-30T00:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2020-03-30T00:29:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:29:08","slug":"fall-on-your-knees-by-ann-marie-macdonald-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/fall-on-your-knees-by-ann-marie-macdonald-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ann-Marie Macdonald<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Fall on Your Knees<\/I>, award-winning actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald’s sprawling and powerful first novel, reads like a literary soap opera, but one whose mature themes are far from the pulp and clich\u00e9s of daytime television. Its episodic rises and falls have the same sort of page-turning, cliff-hanging appeal of that lesser medium. It never drags, never over-burdens the reader, and, most importantly, remains likeable and believable despite the many–and sometimes magical–twists and turns of its tale.

Fall on Your Knees<\/I> tells the story of several generations of the Piper family of Cape Breton, beginning with the marriage of James Piper, the controlling, emotionally stunted son of Gaelic-speaking Scottish Canadians, and Materia Mahmoud, the 13-year-old daughter of wealthy Lebanese immigrants. Materia’s father cuts her off from her family for marrying James, and James in turn forces her to deny both her heritage and her emotions. James, out of a spite even he fails to comprehend, focuses all his attention on Kathleen, his first-born and a musical prodigy. He dotes on her and sends her away to study opera in New York. However, Kathleen’s unexpected return from New York, where she has made some discoveries that will ultimately turn her father against her, becomes the centre of an intricately plotted series of tragedies involving each of the Piper sisters. In a startlingly skilful manipulation of prose, MacDonald teases out clues, secrets, and revelations that are both delightful to discover and disturbing to consider. –Jonathan Dewar<\/I><\/div>\n

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