If you’re dead curious you can email me and I’ll tell you what’s in it. I have only your best interests at heart when I say: SKIP THAT CHAPTER. If you do not want to be made to feel nastily complicit in a group of dumb teenage boys taking sexual advantage of a dumb teenage girl in a really awful way, skip it. I read Chapter 4 and now I am stuck with it in my brain forever. Only do yourself a favor and don’t read Chapter 4. If, having read Too Close to the Falls, you then feel you must find out what happened in Catherine Gildiner’s life subsequently, feel free to read After the Falls. Gildiner’s account of stabbing a classmate with a compass and being taken to a psychologist for evaluation is one of the funniest bits of life writing I have ever read.Ģ. Toward the end, it gets quite a bit sadder, but the rest of the book is so wonderful that I did not really mind. I cannot say enough good things about it.
It is a lovely, touching, frequently laugh-out-loud funny memoir about Catherine Gildiner’s childhood in Lewiston, New York, and her friendship with her father’s delivery man, Roy. Here are two recommendations to further your happiness:ġ.
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