Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters

by Gina Frangello (Editor), Elissa Schappell (Foreword)

Nineteen vivid and compelling stories explore the often charged and tender relationship between a daughter and her father. Includes such notable authors as Pam Houston, Sandra Cisneros, Aimee Bender, Antonya Nelson, Bliss Broyard, Heather Sellers, Steve Almond, Peter Ho Davies, Dan Chaon and others, along with exciting new discoveries. Guest editor Gina Frangello of the award-winning Other Voices magazine, with foreword by Elissa Schappell of Tin House and Vanity Fair. With its universal family theme, Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters is sure to meet a big reception, reaching out from its literary origins to embrace a broad readership with these beautiful and challenging stories.

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Gina Frangello is the author of the collection Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press 2010) and the novel My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus 2006), which was selected as one of the top 10 books of that year by Las Vegas City Life and was a "Read This!" finalist for Spring 2006. For more than a decade, Gina edited the award-winning fiction literary magazine Other Voices, and in 2004 co-launched its book imprint, Other Voices Books. She is currently the Executive Editor of Other Voices Books' Chicago office. Gina is also the Fiction Editor of The Nervous Breakdown (www.thenervousbreakdown.com) and her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, recently including StoryQuarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection, Prairie Schooner, Fence, and Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader. She has been a freelance journalist and book reviewer for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader.

Reviews

[Meade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worst formatting for Kindle that I've seen (would have returned if I hadn't borrowed it for free on Prime) but the stories were really good.

[Gina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an unbelievable anthology about father-daughter relationships from writers like Pam Houston, Peter Ho Davies, Steve Almond, Sandra Cisneros, Dan Chaon, Antonya Nelson and Bliss Broyard, with a foreward by Elissa Schappel. It came out with a really small press as Print On Demand and got almost no press, but I was extremely honored to work with such amazing writers and wish more people knew about this book, as it would have done extremely well if it just had a publicity engine behind it. If you have ANY interest in father-daughter relationships, check this out.

[KayG · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good stories - some not. Bad kindle formatting was very annoying.