Fall On Your Knees:A Novel
Publisher: S AND S; Simon & Schuster
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780684833200
First sentence: A LONG TIME AGO, BEFORE you were born, there lived a family called Piper on Cape Breton Island.
Description: 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.