Ann-Marie MacDonald writes literary fiction and drama about family, sexuality, violence, memory and the histories that shape private lives. Fall on Your Knees follows the Piper family in Cape Breton across several generations, gradually revealing secrets involving marriage, race, religion, abuse and sibling relationships. The novel uses shifting perspectives and a nonlinear family history, so information withheld early can substantially alter the reader's understanding of later events. The Way the Crow Flies moves to a Canadian air-force community during the Cold War and combines childhood experience, a murder investigation and the pressures of secrecy within both family and state institutions. Adult Onset is more contemporary and domestic, focusing on a writer and parent whose present anxieties connect with uncertain memories of childhood. MacDonald's books are dense, character-led and often dark. They suit readers of multigenerational literary fiction, Canadian fiction and family novels in which buried history gradually surfaces. Read more Less
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