The Fall-Down Effect (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Liz Johnston | knygos.lt

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Liz Johnston's eagerly anticipated debut novel traces the diverging fates of siblings Sylvia, Fern, and River from their late-1980s childhood in a small British Columbia logging town, where their mother Lynn's environmental activism sets them apart from the local community, to 2020, when a forest fire forces a fraught, baggage-filled family reunion. At nineteen, Fern commits her own radical act of protest, which authorities label ecoterrorism. As she goes underground, her parents and siblings-- responsible grad student Sylvia and budding artist River-- struggle to make sense of her actions while also trying to cover up her absence. Fern's secret proves impossible to keep, and when she becomes a wanted woman, the rest of the family trades blame. Reverberations of Fern's crime follow the siblings well into adulthood, and when Lynn takes shelter from a forest fire in the house she left so many years before, the family is forced to confront their regrets. Exploring protest, climate change, and fractured family relationships, The Fall-Down Effect asks what we really owe people in our lives when we are fighting for a greater cause.