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Falling Angels
Falling Angels | Barbara Gowdy
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The lives of the Field sisters are forever changed the day their mother drops their infant brother over Niagara Falls, driving each of the girls to find different ways to cope with the war zone that their home becomes amid the changing world of the sanitized suburbs of the fifties and sixties.
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CuriousG
Falling Angels | Barbara Gowdy
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Gut punch doesn't begin to describe my reaction to the last 20 pages. Trigger warnings for everything - if you're sensitive to pretty much any subject, this book is a no-go!
At times I felt Barbara Gowdy is more skilled @ short stories than novels yet the end packed one hell of an emotional punch. I suspected it might end like this and it still robbed me of breath. I'm a sucker for books that wreck me, so I'm obviously going to read more of hers

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CuriousG
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Like everything I've ever read by Barbara Gowdy, this is both beautiful and completely heartbreaking. Ugh - my heart can barely take this but I can't stop reading.

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CuriousG
Falling Angels | Barbara Gowdy
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Much needed day off. Just me and these two boys today - which means holding book in one hand so the other hand is free to throw the kong ball (for literally *hours*)

Chelleo Sounds lovely 😊 7y
niha923 He's cute!! 🐶😍 7y
CuriousG @Chelleo Nothing else I'd rather do right now! Although I would prefer it be camping season and be doing the exact same thing outside 😊 7y
CuriousG @niha923 He really is adorable. Not many people could handle him 24/7 (he's very intense, to put it mildly), but he's such a sweetheart I couldn't imagine my house without him. 7y
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