{"product_id":"9781250050250","title":"Amy Falls Down : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Falls Down\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jincy Willett\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy 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 writer's block, she doesn't suffer from it. She's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo, when on New Year's morning she shuffles out to her backyard garden to plant a Norfolk pine, she is wholly unprepared for what happens next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy falls down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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, Amy's life changes in ways that range from ridiculous to frightening to profound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 becoming—to her horror—a 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJincy Willett's \u003ci\u003eAmy Falls Down\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Asperger's jump-starts your career.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are all like Amy. We are all wholly unprepared for what happens next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso, there's a basset hound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I loved this novel--it's totally brilliant--witty and mordant....I thought Willett couldn't top Winner of the National Book Award, but I was wrong--this one definitely does.” —\u003ci\u003eNancy Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Willett uses her charmingly filterless heroine as a mouthpiece to slam a parade of thinly veiled literati and media personalities with riotous accuracy, but she balances the snark with moments of poignancy.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The books of Jincy Willett are a delicious secret--witty, clever, ironic, funny. Her new novel, \u003ci\u003eAmy Falls Down\u003c\/i\u003e, pokes fun at our world of instant celebrity and buzz.” —\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jincy Willett is hilarious, witty, and compelling....Put \u003ci\u003eAmy Falls Down\u003c\/i\u003e on the top of your list.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Providence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner NPR Best Book of the Year (2013)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250050250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40623855272142,"sku":"9781250050250","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_042c6e2a-dab8-4fb2-a27e-0460cf4ccfd0.jpg?v=1638578978","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250050250","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}