And Then She Fell A Novel Alicia Elliott by Alicia Elliott 9780593473092, 0593473094 instant download after payment.

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood & mental health that follows a young Indigenous woman who discovers the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences

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; & they’ve moved into a new home in a posh Toronto neighborhood. 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, & every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve & their ever-watchful neighbors, 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 & hearing voices she can’t explain, all while her neighbors’ passive-aggressive behavior 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, & that in her creation story lies the key to her & Dawn’s survival…. She just has to finish it before it’s too late.

Told in Alice’s raw & darkly funny voice, And Then She Fell is an urgent & unflinching exploration of inherited trauma, womanhood, denial, & false allyship, which speeds to an unpredictable—& surreal—climax.

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ALICIA ELLIOTT is a Mohawk writer & editor living in Brantford, Ontario.