Reeves, Cynthia / Falling Through the New World
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Cynthia Reeves is the author of three books of fiction. Her novel-in-stories FALLING THROUGH THE NEW WORLD won Gold Wake Press’s Spring 2023 Fiction Prize and a Gold Award from the Collective of Independent Publishers (CIPA), was short-listed for the 2025 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, and was a Foreword INDIES finalist for Book of the Year in Literary Fiction.
Cynthia Reeves' expertly crafted novel-in-stories finds artistry in manual labor and reveals the sacred in the everyday. Twists of lace ribbon, a tailor's steady stitching, thread looped into intricate patterns to make a wedding or mourning veil, a string of rosary beads, notches in a wooden tabletop marking time and human presence: Reeves uses these heirlooms and artifacts to seamlessly bind generations of an Italian-American family, old country to new, past to present. Falling Through the New World is a deeply moving story of the Desiderio family-a history in handwork that is the truest expression of faith in the future.
-Elizabeth Mosier, Excavating Memory: Archaeology and Home
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9781737780861
Gold Wake Press Collective
February 2024
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Reeves, Cynthia / Falling Through the New World