Fall on Your Knees

Ann-Marie MacDonald’s epic follows the Piper family on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, across the early twentieth century. Around a domineering father and his daughters, the novel accumulates secrets of love, betrayal, race, and abuse, reaching back and forth in time. Gothic and richly told, it slowly reveals the buried truths that shaped the family, in a story of damage and the search for redemption.