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Author Elliott, Alicia, author.

Title And then she fell : a novel / Alicia Elliott.

Publication Info. [New York] : Dutton, [2023]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  F ELLIOTT, A.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F ELLIOTT, A.    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Main Level  FICTION ELLIOTT    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  F ELLIOTT ALICIA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  F ELLIOTT    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  F ELLIOTT    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  ELLIOTT, ALICIA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - New Materials  FIC ELLIOTT, A    DUE 04-25-24
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  F ELLIOTT, A.    DUE 04-02-24
 Simsbury Public Library - New Materials  NEW F ELLIOTT, ALICIA    DUE 04-01-24

Description 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary "From the bestselling author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, a fierce, gripping novel about Native life, motherhood and mental health that follows a young Mohawk woman who discovers that the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve--a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture--is nothing but supportive; and they've just moved into a new home in a wealthy neighbourhood in Toronto, a generous gift from her in-laws. But Alice could not feel like more of an imposter. She isn't connecting with Dawn, a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her own mother, and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve and their picture-perfect neighbours, amongst whom she's the sole Indigenous resident. Even when she does have a moment to herself, her perpetual self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left: her goal of writing a modern retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story. At first, Alice is convinced her discomfort is of her own making. She has gotten everything she always dreamed of, after all. But then strange things start happening. She finds herself losing bits of time, hearing voices she can't explain, and speaking with things that should not be talking back to her, all while her neighbours' passive aggression begins to morph into something far more threatening. Though Steve urges her this is all in her head, Alice cannot fight the feeling that something is very, very wrong, and that in her creation story lies the key to her, and Dawn's, survival. . . . She just has to finish it before it's too late. Told in Alice's raw and darkly funny voice, And Then She Fell is an urgent and unflinching look at inherited trauma, womanhood, denial and false allyship, that speeds to an unpredictable--and unforgettable--climax"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Indian women -- North America -- Fiction.
Local Subject Indigenous women -- North America -- Fiction.
Subject Motherhood -- Fiction.
Mental health -- Fiction.
Mohawk women -- Fiction.
Women authors -- Fiction.
Interracial marriage -- Fiction.
Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Horror fiction (OCoLC)fst01921684
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Horror fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.
ISBN 9780593473085 (hardcover)
0593473086 (hardcover)
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