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Bloomsbury presents Defenestrate by Rene Branum read by Zura Johnson

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE

An exuberant wildly inventive debut about a young woman fascinated by her ancestors legendary falling curse and trying to keep her own family from falling apart

Marta and her twin brother Nick have always been haunted and fascinated by an ancestral legend that holds that members of their family are doomed to various types of falls And when their own family collapses in the wake of a revelation and a resulting devastating fight with their Catholic mother the twins move to Prague the city in which their falling curse began There Marta and Nick try to forge a new life for themselves But their ties to the past and each other prove difficult to disentangle and when they ultimately return to their midwestern home and Nick falls from a balcony himself Marta is forced to confront the truths theyve hidden from each other and themselves

Ingeniously and unforgettably narrated by Marta as she reflects on all the ways there are to fallfrom defenestration in nineteenth century Prague to the pratfalls of her childhood idol Buster Keaton from falling in love to falling midflight from an airplaneDefenestrate is a deeply original gorgeous novel about the power of stories and the strange malleable bonds that hold families together

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