Fall On Your Knees:A Novel

About this book

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.

Subjects

• domestic fiction
• dysfunctional families
• families
• family
• family -- nova scotia -- cape breton island -- fiction
• ferro-grumley award for lesbian fiction finalist
• fiction
• fiction, general
• fiction, historical, general
• fiction, sagas
• general
• incest victims
• literature and fiction (general)
• new york (n.y.), fiction
• nova scotia, fiction
• rape victims
• sisters
• sisters, fiction
• sisters -- nova scotia -- cape breton island -- fiction