Breaking Her Fall

Goodwin, Stephen

3.37

1,581 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 015100806X ISBN 13: 9780151008063

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

Losing his temper when he hears allegations about his daughter and a group of boys at a party, Tucker Jones inadvertently assaults one of the boys and is targeted in a legal battle that threatens his home, career, freedom, and relationship with his daughter. 25,000 first printing.

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"BREAKING HER FALL is a frank, plain-spoken, passionate novel that got its grips on me. It is, in one sense, a page turner, and in another a true and good story of human frailty and imperfection survived." - Richard Ford

On an ordinary summer night in 1998, my daughter, Kathryn - Kat, we all called her, a fourteen-year-old who still liked to wear her blond hair in pigtails - told me that she was going to the movies with Abby, her best friend, but they never got there. Instead, they hooked up with some other kids, and decided to blow off the movie. It was a hot, dense Washington night, and one of the boys - Jed Vandenberg - invited everybody back to his house. He had a pool. His parents were away. The kids started drinking beer and vodka shooters. Just before eleven, when Kat was supposed to phone to let me know she was safe at Abby's house, I got a call from a stranger.

About the Author:

Stephen Goodwin is a professor of creative writing at George Mason University and the author of two novels and a nonfiction book. For two years, Goodwin directed the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts, and he served as president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

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