A Certain Fall

A Certain Fall takes the reader to that cold, ominous place-the heart of a family that is self-destructing, and one child determined not to be taken down with them. It is a story about what love is and what love is not. In this collection of stories, a child emerges from a despairing family in the 1950s and '60s to find hope in the friendship of a small town and its people; and as an adult, struggles with the grief for a childhood lost. A Certain Fall is compassionate but bluntly unambiguous in depicting human cruelty: subtle, or deliberate and shameless. It describes the fortitude and courage of one resilient child and asks if forgiveness is an act or an event in one's life.