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 Jirí 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... 'Wonderful...with an idiosyncratic humour that
reminded me of Ottessa Moshfegh' Daily Telegraph 'Original and engaging' Guardian 'Lights up
the imagination' Dina Nayeri
