Defenestrate - Renee Branum
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A wildly inventive, exhilarating debut narrated by a young woman
meditating on her Czech ancestors' 'falling curse', her twin
brother's fall from a window, and the malleable, breakable bonds
keeping her family from falling apart. One thing that the city of
Prague is famous for is throwing men out of windows. The word for
this is defenestration. In 1895, Marta's great-great-grandfather
Jiri was said to have given a gentle push to the back of a
stonemason for having wronged him. The stonemason fell to his death
and the family fled the Czech capital for the American Midwest,
where they set up a new life. So begins the story of Marta and her
brother Nick, deeply interwoven twins haunted by the mysterious
curse that has plagued their family for centuries, one that has
doomed them to suffer various types of falls. And when Nick falls
out of a window and ends up seriously injured, Marta embarks on a
heart-breaking quest to discover whether or not his fall was
intentional, and to stop her family from falling apart. Grappling
with family myths, sexual identity and mental illness, Defenestrate
is a novel about the kinds of tales we tell ourselves and others in
order to survive - and how those stories can both protect and
betray us. From a major new voice in literary fiction, Defenestrate
is a novel about belonging, and finding one's place in a world in
which you are, quite literally, plummeting.
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