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.
This novel tells a complete story within its pages and does not require reading any other books by Ann-Marie MacDonald to understand or appreciate it.
Yes, the novel was adapted into a feature film in 2002, directed by Helen Shaver.
The novel was a finalist for the Giller Prize, one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, in 1997.