Too Close to the Falls, a Memoir

• Year: 1999
• Leaves: 350
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Heartbreaking and wicked: a memoir of  stunning beauty and remarkable grace. Improbable friendships and brushes with death. A schoolgirl affecting the course of aboriginal politics. Elvis and cocktails and Catholicism and the secrets buried deep beneath a place that may be another, undiscovered Love Canal – Lewiston, New York. Too Close to the Falls is an exquisite, haunting return, through time and memory, to the heart of Catherine Gildiner’s childhood.And what a childhood it was …

✦ Table of Contents

1550223968......Page 1
CHAPTER 1......Page 10
CHAPTER 2......Page 30
CHAPTER 3......Page 50
CHAPTER 4......Page 62
CHAPTER 5......Page 88
CHAPTER 6......Page 108
CHAPTER 7......Page 136
CHAPTER 8......Page 164
CHAPTER 9......Page 188
CHAPTER 10......Page 230
CHAPTER 11......Page 244
CHAPTER 12......Page 298
CHAPTER 13......Page 310
An Excerpt from After the Falls
......Page 361
CHAPTER 1: Expulsion
......Page 362
Back Flap
......Page 378
Back Cover
......Page 379