The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (CD-Audio)

from MarkMeg

Very powerful. A little confusing at some points as it goes from character to character. Rachel survives her mother's attempt to kill herself and her children, but does not save her brother Robbie. Her mother throws her brother and sister off the roof and Rachel attempts to jump and land to prote...

from Cariola

I love novels that are told from different characters' points of view. In The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, the author gives us three alternating narrators. Twelve-year old Rachel has survived a terrible tragedy (well, she has survived physically, at least), and her life and her sense of self chang...

from Ireadthereforeiam

The story is very interesting, inventive, involved. It keeps you on your toes and you feel for the main gal, Rachel.....but....the story is told from multiple perspectives, and a lot of them are children. I find both these things a bit annoying. I dont want to give to much away and am glad to hav...

from bell7

Rachel lives with her grandmother because her mother, in a fit of depression, pushed her children and jumped off the roof of a nine-storey apartment complex. Rachel survived. This is the sort of book that I don't necessarily like while I'm reading, but as it lingers in my mind and I turn over ele...

from snat

It's easy to see why there's so much fuss over this novel. Much as Nella Larsen did in her exemplary novel Passing and the novel Quicksand, Heidi Durrow explores both interracial and intraracial racism in a compelling and unique way. Throughout the novel, there are several nods to Larsen (the mot...