![]() ![]() And I had seen images of these three sisters who appeared like martyred saints in a cathedral, each of them holding what I thought of as a prop, or a symbol of their martyrdom. “I fully intended to write a play,” said MacDonald in an early morning Zoom interview. It’s a book with a devout following in Canada and abroad, shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 1996 and selected for Oprah’s Book Club in 2002.īut according to MacDonald, there was never any doubt it would be onstage someday. ![]() ![]() Set in Atlantic Canada at the turn of the 20th century, “Fall on Your Knees” searches through the rubble of the Piper family - secrets too dark ever to be uttered - and finds poetry in unlikely spots. Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel bursts at the seams with prosaic beauty, full of metaphor and hauntingly melancholic language. To fans of the sprawling epic, that might come as a surprise. From its very inception, the smash bestseller “Fall on Your Knees” was destined for the stage. ![]()
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