![]() ![]() While fiction, Fall On Your Knees opened people’s eyes to the complex history of the region, from harsh life in the coal mines to the many cultures that settled in Eastern Canada, including the richly diverse Middle Eastern and Afro-Caribbean communities. It’s an epic tale that chronicles five generations of sin, guilt, and redemption. The story begins in Nova Scotia, in the brutal years following World War 1, and moves to New York City, following the lives of four sisters as they uncover life-changing family secrets, confronting challenges and tragedies, including attempted murder, incest, forbidden love, and racial strife. So I’m gonna just have to learn by doing. ![]() ![]() I somehow stumbled upon a route in the unconscious or in the imagination and wound up writing a novel by accident. “I realized, these aren’t stage directions. She realized that what she thought was a piece of theatre was actually the beginning of her award-winning novel. But as she kept going, building her characters, writing their stories, fleshing out the lives of Cape Breton’s Piper family, she ended up crafting a sweeping multigenerational story. ![]() In fact, that’s how it all began: visually, with costumes, set design, and stage directions scribbled on the side. Ann-Marie MacDonald always knew that Fall On Your Knees could be a play. ![]()
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