While I'm Falling

Name: While I'm Falling
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Laura Moriarty
ISBN: 9781440760495

Author: Laura Moriarty

Narrator: Julia Gibson

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/20/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Author Laura Moriarty, a recipient of the George Bennet Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy, melted the hearts of readers and critics alike with her stirring debut The Center of Everything-a novel in the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird. Now, in While I'm Falling, Moriarty again crafts a dramatic tale filled with unforgettable characters.

About Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty is the New York Times bestselling author of The Chaperone, as well as The Rest of Her Life, While Iâ€™m Falling, The Center of Everything, and American Heart. She received her degree in social work before returning for her MA in creative writing at the University of Kansas, and she was the recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. She currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Kansas. Visit her online at www.lauramoriarty.net.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clif on April 30, 2017

The angst of the mother-daughter relationship is thoroughly explored in this book as only the skillful writing of Laura Moriarty can do. However, also contained in this book is exploration of an example of how a long time marriage can end up in divorce. The book is structured around the parallel act......more

Goodreads review by Sara on August 02, 2009

If you’ve read The Rest of Her Life, you already know that Laura Moriarty has such an easy command of language that not a lot needs to happen in her books for them to seem gripping. While I’m Falling is no exception. To over simplify, a college student, Veronica, struggles with a pre-med course load......more

Goodreads review by Diane on October 15, 2009

A charming book. I love how Moriarty put her character up a tree and then threw rocks at her. Lots of rocks. :)......more

Goodreads review by Andreas on April 19, 2020

I really loved the writing style, the characters and most of all, of course, the story itself. It portrays the relationship of a family in the middle of a divorce and perspectives and thoughts of each member and generation. Each of the characters’ stories were on one or another level relateable and......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 03, 2015

Veronica's father finds Roofer Guy in the marital bed, and decides to divorce her mother. As a result, Mom starts on one of those downward slides where everything just snowballs into A Bad Life. Veronica, in college as a pre-med, is heading in the same direction. Not doing her job as an RA well, not......more