“Richly detailed and absorbing, Too Close to the Falls has only one real fault. The author’s maturity, her ability to forgive rather than blame, informs this book and is the ultimate gift to the reader.”Ī “lively and immensely engaging memoir.” The author is among those who has survived the funny, sad, hard knocks of butting childhood ideals up against the real world, of painfully seeing through, and losing faith in, the rote pieties of religious indoctrination, and the hypocrisies of small-town respectability, 1950s-style. … a revealing and vivid portrait of small-town America around the 1950s.… Anyone who ever was, or has, a child considered different in some way will enjoy this book. “Although Catherine Gildiner didn’t grow up dirt-poor in Ireland, or communing with gophers on the Depression-era Prairie, her tale of life as an eccentric, middle-class Catholic school girl in 1950s Lewiston, N.Y., is no less memorably and skillfully told than.
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