Falling Through the Earth (Paperback)
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Independent [A] beautifully pointed book. There is a fine intelligence about it that eschews the glib --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Independent Extremely moving --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Big...
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Independent [A] beautifully pointed book. There is a fine intelligence about it that eschews the glib --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Independent Extremely moving --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Big Issue in Scotland Tricky to put down --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. The Independent 'this beautifully pointed book --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Sunday Times Trussonis own voice is wry, witty and unsentimental
She writes with high intelligence
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Vogue Heartwrenching memoir --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. TLS 'Falling through the Earth views the repercussions of the Vietnam war through the prism of a single family.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Product Description From her father, Danielle Trussoni learned the importance of rock and roll, how to avoid the cops and never to shy away from a fight. Growing up, she was fascinated by the stories he told of his adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, where he risked his life crawling head-first into holes to search for American POW's held underground. Ultimately, Danielle came to realize that when the man she adored drank too much, beat up strangers or mistreated her mother, it was because the war inside his head would never be over. And eventually, when her mother and siblings walked away and washed their hands of Dan Trussoni, Danielle did not. As Danielle trails her father through nights of drinking, scores of wild girlfriends and years of bad dreams, a vivid and poignant portrait of a father-daughter relationship emerges. Theirs is a love story filled with anger, stubbornness, outrageous behaviour and battle scars that never completely heal. 'Trussoni has taken an extended trip to hell and come back with treasures from that drunken, burning, broken place. She writes of the effects of war without a hint of self-pity, with surprising humour, disarming candor, a hard-won wisdom and with uncannily sure-footed prose. Even if this book were not urgently important and devastatingly timely, I'd still urge you to read it for the sheer triumph of the author's gift' - Alexandra Fuller, author of "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight". 'A salient and timely reminder that a war's victims aren't limited to those in uniform nor demarcated by geography. This is an important and harrowing story' - Anthony Swofford, author of "Jarhead". 'Powerful and revealing...Wry, witty and unsentimental. Trussoni writes with high intelligence ...and a fathomless interest in the aftershocks of war' - "Sunday Times". About the Author Danielle Trussoni, who grew up and now lives in LaCrosse Wisconsin, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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