When the World Tips Over
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
Welcome to Paradise Springs, Northern California – a hot, dusty, half-magical, wine-country town where there are so many grapes fermenting at one time, you get drunk from breathing the air; where devil winds blow so hard they whip your sense away. A town where every fairy tale you've ever read could be set ... and "home" to the family Falls. When a strange, enigmatic, rainbow-haired girl shows up in their fantastical hometown, it sends the lives of Fall brothers Wynton and Miles and their sister Dizzy into tumult. With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family’s complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this multigenerational epic sprinkled with magic, Nelson (I'll Give You the Sun) tackles grief, love, and the ways in which history commingles with the present. Fall siblings Dizzy, 12; Miles, 17; and 19-year-old violin prodigy Wynton—named by their winemaker father for his favorite trumpet players—live with their chef mother in paradisial Northern California wine country. Dizzy has never known her father, who's been gone since before she was born. His absence has taken its toll on the whole family: Miles has been navigating depression (and an inexplicable ability to read dogs' minds), Wynton and Miles's relationship is in ruins, and Dizzy—who can see ghosts—longs to feel loved. Salvation, Dizzy believes, comes in the form of Cassidy, a rainbow-haired 19-year-old who saves Dizzy from being hit by a truck. As Cassidy gradually becomes an integral part of the siblings' lives, she sets them on a path toward healing. This intricately rendered unfolding of a family's past is lengthy but never dull. Via myriad alternating perspectives interwoven with magical elements and textured narrative interstitials, Nelson takes readers on a whirlwind journey toward a profound and satisfying destination. Major characters read as white; the Falls are Jewish. Ages 14–up.
