What the reviewers are saying about Falling From Grace
Lindsay at the Galiano Bookstore writes in The Active Page (May 2010): "I hate to use the cliched "every once in awhile" phrase, but I really simply must in this case. Bear with me.
Every once in awhile, you pick up a novel that completely shocks you. It wasn't that I doubted Eriksson's beautiful prose, but simply that on the surface, I didn't think that the story would really hold me. After all, what do I have in common with a dwarf entomologist?
More that you might think. I read this eloquent novel in two sittings. The first sitting brought me past page 80, and left me itching to return to it. The second sitting left me in a heap of tears and with very wet pyjama shirtsleeves. I cried my eyes out.
Not just the rolling down the cheeks full tears, but the heaving crying that only comes when something really profound touches me. This novel takes the soul and spirit of a woman and translates it into a universal language that is precise, poetic and full of clear and crafted language.It is clear that the author did her research, but she managed to turn it into a cleanly woven novel of Sitka Spruce proportions.
I feel especially warmed after reading this novel knowing that Ann Eriksson will be visiting Galiano and doing a reading on May 16th. If I were you, I would pickup a copy of Falling From Grace and get acquainted. I will be there trying not to gush."
The Vancouver Sun ( Sunday April 17) calls Faye Pearson a "character of substance, complexity and stature".
Richard at boughtbooks.blogspot.com says: "I really had no choice but to pick up one of the newest offerings from the increasingly interesting Brindle & Glass publishers: Ann Eriksson's novel Falling from Grace .I haven't started reading it yet, but here's the back-cover description, which will explain why I needed it:...
March 15, 2010 Victoria Times Colonist by Moira Dunn (also run in the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post)
"This is a novel that will lead you to look up (way up) and consider the many and various gifts the forest canopy yields. Who knew it was, for so many, such a place of refuge, research, protest, love, life and death...
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