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A review by beritt
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
5.0
One of the most beautiful books I have read this year, and ever. Beautiful and terrible, and haunting because of the ways it tells you things without explicitly telling you.
I loved Kathleen from the start, and now I know why.
Also, this exchange:
"She kissed me. And after a while she said, "Actually, you smell like the sea."
"What do you know from the sea, there's no sea in New York, there's a grubby harbour."
"I know you."
"Then what's it smell like."
"Like rocks. Like an empty house with all the windows blowing open. Like thinking, like tears. Like November" (535).
A devastating novel, but so beautiful.
I loved Kathleen from the start, and now I know why.
Also, this exchange:
"She kissed me. And after a while she said, "Actually, you smell like the sea."
"What do you know from the sea, there's no sea in New York, there's a grubby harbour."
"I know you."
"Then what's it smell like."
"Like rocks. Like an empty house with all the windows blowing open. Like thinking, like tears. Like November" (535).
A devastating novel, but so beautiful.