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And then she fell / Alicia Elliott.

And then she fell / Alicia Elliott.
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F ELLI
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Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700033973
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ISBN 9781922928009 (paperback)
Classification F ELLI
Personal Name Elliott, Alicia
Title And then she fell / Alicia Elliott.
Production & Copyright Details Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Atlantic Books Australia, 2023.
©2023
Physical Description 349 pages ; 24 cm
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Summary Note On the surface, Alice is exactly where she thinks she should be: She's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve - a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture--is nothing but supportive; and they've moved into a new home in a posh Toronto neighbourhood. But Alice could not feel like more of an impostor. She isn't connecting with her daughter, 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 ever-watchful neighbours, among whom she's the sole Indigenous resident. Even when she does have a minute 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. Then, as if all that wasn't enough, strange things start to happen. She finds herself losing bits of time and hearing voices she can't explain, all while her neighbours' passive-aggressive behaviour begins to morph into something far more threatening. Though Steve assures 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 exploration of inherited trauma, womanhood, denial, and false allyship, which speeds to an unpredictable--and surreal--climax.
Subject - Topical Term Motherhood -- Fiction
Mohawk women -- Fiction
Women authors -- Fiction
Interracial marriage -- Fiction
Mental illness -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction
Subject - Genre Horror fiction
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