Amy Falls Down : A Novel eAudiobook MP3

Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writers block, she doesnt suffer from it. Shes still a hermit, but she has allowed some of her class members into her life. She is no longer numb, angry, and sardonic: she is merely numb and bemused, which is as close to happy as she plans to get. Amy is calm.

So, when on New Years morning she shuffles out to her backyard garden to plant a Norfolk pine, she is wholly unprepared for what happens next.

Amy falls down.

A simple accident, as a result of which something happens, and then something else, and then a number of different things, all as unpredictable as an eight-ball break. At first the changes are small, but as these small events carom off one another, Amys life changes in ways that range from ridiculous to frightening to profound.

This most reluctant of adventurers is dragged and propelled by train, plane, and automobile through an outlandish series of antic media events on her way to becomingto her horrora kind of celebrity. And along the way, as the numbness begins to wear off, she comes up against something she has avoided all her life: her future, that sleeping monster, not to be poked.

Amy Falls Down explores, through the experience of one character, the role that accident plays in all our lives. You turn a corner and beasts break into arias, gunfire erupts, waking a hundred families, starting a hundred different conversations. You crack your head open and three thousand miles away a stranger with Aspergers jump-starts your career.

We are all like Amy. We are all wholly unprepared for what happens next.

Also, theres a basset hound.