Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Title: Fall On Your Knees
Description: Jonathan Cape 1996 Paperback, 566pp. 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. (ISBN: 9780224044844). Good.

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