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Publisher's Synopsis Following the curves of the twentieth century FALL ON YOUR KNEES takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father the sisters -Kathleen the oldest a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva; Frances the drunken rogue and child prostitute; Lily the pseudo-saint cripple; and Mercedes the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of events and of their own desires. This is a story of family relationships racial strife miracles attempted murder birth and eath and an extraordinary love affair.
