Fall On Your Knees
Canadian author Ann-Marie MacDonald lures readers with her amazing insight into the human soul and its darkest secrets in her debut novel, Fall On Your Knees. Set mostly on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and partly in New York City in the swinging twenties, Fall On Your Knees is a mixture of inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, miracles, racial strife, attempted murder, birth, death and forbidden love. ... This can be seen in Fall On Your Knees through several secondary characters. ... In Fall On Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald demonstrates that for individuals, adversity causes some to fight back, which is a formative and strengthening factor in their development. ... Fall On Your Knees is a mystically charged journey through the lives of numerous characters that broadens the reader’s perspective of what it means to be fully human.