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Fall on your knees a novel

Following the curves of the twentieth century, this novel takes the reader from haunted Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene of New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four sisters.

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  • "Following the curves of the twentieth century, this novel takes the reader from haunted Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene of New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four sisters."@en
  • "The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives--even to destroy them. Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on your knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Compellingly written, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin, guilt, and redemption."@en
  • "In the first quarter of the twentieth century, an ambitious Cape Breton father and his Lebanese child-bride raise four extraordinary girls, and it is one of them, Lily who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption. Strong language and descriptions of sex and violence."
  • "In the first quarter of the twentieth century, an ambitious Cape Breton father and his Lebanese child-bride raise four extraordinary girls. Kathleen is a gifted singer preparing for an opera career; Frances is the bad girl, an incorrigible liar; Mercedes is an obsessive Catholic, trying to protect the flock; but it is Lily who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption."
  • "A multi-generational saga set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, the story chronicles the lives of the Piper family, which is steeped in secrets, lies, sin, guilt, and redemption, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny."@en
  • "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."@en

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