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And Then She Fell
Alicia Elliott
A literary Get Out meets Nightbitch – an emotional, powerful examination of motherhood, mental health, intergenerational trauma, race and class.
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Whisked away from the Six Nations reservation by her charming academic husband Steve, struggling new mother Alice is writing a modern-day retelling of the Haudenosaunee Creation story of Sky Woman. Her dream has finally come true. But more and more, it feels like a waking nightmare.
Grieving the recent death of her mother, Alice has started hearing voices and speaking with things that should not be talking back. Are the voices in Alice’s head those of her ancestors? Or are the terrors she sees an inevitable mental breakdown from inherited trauma? Is she, like Sky Woman, destined to fall?
Alicia Elliott is a Mohawk writer and editor living in Brantford, Ontario. Her short fiction was selected for Best American Short Stories 2018 and she won the 2018 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. Her first book, A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, is a Canadian bestseller.
Hardback • £14.99
234x156 • 400pp
9781838959418
