2/$25.00 Fall on Your Knees; by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Paperback. Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations; dark, insightful and hilarious; focuses on the Piper sisters and their troubled relationship with their father, James. At the start of the 20th century, James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live. Some major themes: racial tension, isolation, passion and love.