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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Defenestrate
Author: BRANUM RENEE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 16/05/2023
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
A wildly inventive, exhilarating debut narrated by a young woman meditating on her Czech ancestors’ ‘falling curse’, her twin brother’s fall from a window, and the malleable, breakable bonds keeping her family from falling apart.
The ‘hypnotic…addictive’ (New York Times) debut novel narrated by a young woman meditating on the malleable, breakable bonds keeping her family from falling apart.
There’s a superstition in our family about falling…
Marta’s great-great-grandfather Jiri was said to have given a gentle push to the back of a stonemason for having wronged him. The stonemason fell to his death and the family fled Prague for the American Midwest, where they set up a new life.
So begins the story of Marta and her brother Nick, deeply interwoven twins haunted by the mysterious curse that has plagued their family for centuries – one that has doomed them to suffer various types of falls. When Nick tumbles out of a window and ends up seriously injured, Marta must embark on a heartbreaking quest to discover whether or not his fall was intentional, and to stop her family from falling apart…
ISBN: 9781529114485
Pages: 224
Edition: 01