When the World Tips Over

 By: Jandy Nelson

Location: FIC NEL

Genre: Teen Life

Nilufer:

This book is a lyrical symphony! The most delicious meal! The most heartbreaking family saga where the curse of Abel and Cain may incarnate in two brothers, and the curse can only be broken by facing the truth and seeing things with your heart!

This is one of the best books I’ve read this year! It has already taken its honorary place in my library, and I plan to give it as a gift to anyone who is still soul-searching, tarnished by family history, lost in the dark, and needs something inspirational to find their path again!

An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment

The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head.

Years ago, the Fall kids’ father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame . . . or self-destruction.

Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls’ world over. She might be an angel. Or a saint. Or an ordinary girl. Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever. And more desperate to be whole.

With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family’s complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.