What Falls Away

A 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Award winner
"A powerful novel that will resonate with anyone who has returned to a place they no longer recognize as home."

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

Cassandra Soelberg, pregnant at seventeen, was cast out by Mormon patriarchs of her community. Returning to her rural Utah hometown after forty years to care for her senile mother, she meets a young man with an uncanny resemblance to the father of the child she was forced to give up for adoption. Drawn back into tra...