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03397aam a22005298i 4500 001 5D564FC0992D11EC82317EFE47ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220301010056 008 210225s2022 nyu e 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021008724 020 $a 163557739X 020 $a 9781635577396 035 $a (OCoLC)1240264052 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d CMI $d RNL $d OCLCO $d DPL $d JTH $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3602.R3683 $b D44 2022 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Branum, Renee, $e author. 245 10 $a Defenestrate : $b a novel / $c ReneÌe Branum. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Publishing, $c 2022. 300 $a 226 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "A wildly inventive, exhilarating debut narrated by a young woman meditating on her Czech ancestors' "falling curse," her twin brother's fall from a window, and the malleable, breakable bonds keeping her family from falling apart. Marta and her twin brother Nick have always been haunted and fascinated by an ancestral legend that holds that members of their family are doomed to various types of falls. And when their own family falls apart in the wake of a revelation and a resulting devastating fight with their Catholic mother, the twins move to Prague, the city in which their "falling curse" began. There Marta and Nick try to forge a new life for themselves. But their ties to the past and each other prove difficult to disentangle, and when they ultimately return to their midwestern home and Nick falls from a window himself, they are forced to confront the truths they've hidden from each other and themselves. Through this compelling, exuberant exploration of all the ways there are to fall--from defenestration in nineteenth century Prague to the pratfalls of their childhood idol Buster Keaton, from falling in love to falling midflight from an airplane--Defenestrate is a stunning, unsettling, and deeply original debut. Grappling with family myths, repression, and mental illness, Renee Branum shows us how stories reveal and conceal life's secrets and how they affect one particular family as they try to protect one another from their true history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Twins $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Blessing and cursing $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mental illness $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Blessing and cursing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00834275 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Mental illness. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01016547 650 7 $a Twins. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01159851 655 0 $a Psychological fiction. 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726481 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Branum, Renee. $t Defenestrate $d New York : Bloomsbury, 2022 $z 9781635577402 $w (DLC) 2021008725 941 $a 9 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117033304.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030018.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804025104.0 952 $l HIPC765 $d 20220527010903.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220420010048.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220406010937.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220401030300.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220330010423.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220302013038.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5D564FC0992D11EC82317EFE47ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search