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Audie Award Finalist, Literary Fiction, 2014 Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor surviving in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she's made some progress. While she still has writer's block, she doesn't have problems with it. She's still a hermit, but she's allowed some of her class members into her life. She is no longer numb, angry, and sardonic: she actually is merely numb and bemused, which is really as near happy as she plans to get. Amy is calm. So, when on New Year's morning she shuffles out to her backyard garden to plant a Norfolk pine, she actually is wholly unprepared for what goes on next. Amy falls down. A straightforward accident, because of this of which something happens, and then something else, and a number of various things, all as unpredictable as an eight-ball break. Initially the changes are small, but as these small events carom off one another, Amy's life changes with techniques that range from ridiculous to frightening to profound. This most reluctant of adventurers is dragged and propelled by train, plane, and automobile via an outlandish series of antic media events on her way to becoming - to her horror - a kind of celebrity. And along the way, as the numbness starts to wear off, she comes up against something she's avoided all her life: her future, that "sleeping monster, never to be poked." Amy Falls Down explores, through the experience of 1 character, the role that accident plays in all our lives. "You turn a corner and beasts break right into arias, gunfire erupts, waking 100 families, starting 100 different conversations. You crack your mind open and three thousand miles away a stranger with Asperger's jump-starts your career." We all have been like Amy. We all have been wholly unprepared for what goes on next. Also, which basset hound.
