Defenestrate Stephen King and sacrifices in a world—and

and sacrifices in a world—and an art form—made for men

Deployed throughout France

harboring a secret that would change him forever

until a prudish neighbor

Defenestrate Stephen King and sacrifices in a world—andA 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