All Fall Down

In these two novellas and four shorter tales of love and healing gone awry, Mary Caponegro introduces caregivers and lovers, muses and skydivers, mothers and minors - all headed toward "ninety mile-an-hour psychic crashes euphemistically referred to as epiphanies." As her stories move from suburban playrooms to sickbeds, and from the Last Resort Retreat to the mountains of Boulder and through the streets of Rome, their exuberant lyricism, remarkable characterization, and elaborately detailed settings breathe life into the enduring human dramas of failure, resilience, and transformation.