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When the World Tips Over
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Briggon Snow, Caitlin Kinnunen, Julia Whelan
- Length: 14 hrs
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Summary
An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Give You the Sun
The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head.
Years ago, the Fall kids’ father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame . . . or self-destruction.
Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls’ world over. She might be an angel. Or a saint. Or an ordinary girl. Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever. And more desperate to be whole.
With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family’s complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
“I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book.”—Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
"Transcendently beautiful.”—Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay
“Sublime, intricate, and dazzling . . . I adored it.”—Helena Fox, author of How It Feels to Float
“Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent.”—Tahereh Mafi, author of the Shatter Me series
"Intricately rendered . . . Profound and satisfying."—PW (starred review)
“A technicolor fever dream offering readers a sensory feast.”—Kirkus
"Splendid and complex . . . Satisfying and soul-thrilling . . . Well worth the wait." —SLJ (starred review)
"Beautiful.”—Booklist
Critic reviews
“Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso, and When The World Tips Over left me speechless. I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book.”—Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and co-author with Adam Silvera of What If It's Us
"When the World Tips Over is transcendently beautiful. It bursts with life and spills over with heartache and love.”—Nina LaCour, Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay and Yerba Buena
“Sublime, intricate, and dazzling, When the World Tips Over kept opening and opening before me like a glorious map of treasures. I loved all of its delightful, flawed, sensitive characters, and the magic inside each of them. Jandy Nelson has created an epic and intimate tale. I adored it.”—Helena Fox, award-winning author of How It Feels to Float and The Quiet and the Loud